About the Authors

Moushumi Sen Sarma

moushumi@life.illinois.edu

Affiliations Neuroscience Program, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Sandra L. Rodriguez-Zas

Affiliations Neuroscience Program, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Feng Hong

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Sheng Zhong

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Gene E. Robinson

Affiliations Neuroscience Program, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSS GER. Performed the experiments: MSS. Analyzed the data: MSS SLRZ FH SZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GER. Wrote the paper: MSS GER.