About the Authors

Jason L. O’Loughlin

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Molecular Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Tyson P. Eucker

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Molecular Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Juan D. Chavez

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Derrick R. Samuelson

Affiliation School of Molecular Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Jason Neal-McKinney

Affiliation School of Molecular Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Christopher R. Gourley

Affiliation School of Molecular Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

James E. Bruce

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Michael E. Konkel

konkel@vetmed.wsu.edu

Affiliation School of Molecular Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JLO TPE JDC DRS JNM CRG JEB MEK. Performed the experiments: JLO TPE JDC DRS JNM CRG JEB MEK. Analyzed the data: JLO TPE JDC DRS JNM CRG JEB MEK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JLO TPE JDC DRS JNM CRG JEB MEK. Wrote the paper: JLO TPE JDC DRS JNM, CRG JEB MEK.