About the Authors

Timothy I. Shaw

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Anuj Srivastava

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Wen-Chi Chou

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Liang Liu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Ann Hawkinson

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado, United States of America

Travis C. Glenn

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Science, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Rick Adams

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado, United States of America

Tony Schountz

tony.schountz@unco.edu

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS TG. Performed the experiments: TS AH RA. Analyzed the data: TIS AS WC LL TG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS TG LL. Wrote the paper: TIS TG TS.