About the Authors

Amy L. Lee

Current address: deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland

Affiliation Biology Department, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, United States of America

Hailey M. Ung

Affiliation Biology Department, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, United States of America

L. Paul Sands

Affiliation Biology Department, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, United States of America

Elise A. Kikis

eakikis@sewanee.edu

Affiliation Biology Department, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Authors whose affiliations are listed as deCODE genetics are shareholders and/or employees at deCODE Genetics, a biotechnology company. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: EK. Formal analysis: AL EK. Funding acquisition: EK. Investigation: AL HU LS EK. Methodology: AL EK. Project administration: EK. Resources: EK. Supervision: EK. Validation: AL HU LS EK. Visualization: AL HU EK. Writing – original draft: EK. Writing – review & editing: AL HU EK.