About the Authors

Kelsey Caetano-Anollés

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

Sanjibita Mishra

Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Khorana Scholars Program, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, New Delhi, India, National Institute of Technology, Rourkel, India

Sandra L. Rodriguez-Zas

rodrgzzs@illinois.edu

Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Institute for Genomic Biology, 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: KCA SRZ. Performed the experiments: KCA SRZ. Analyzed the data: KCA SM SRZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KCA SRZ. Wrote the paper: KCA SRZ.