About the Authors

Cheryl A. Kerfeld

Affiliations Structural Genomics and Education Programs, United States Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Liza Gross

lgross@plos.org

Affiliation Senior Science Writer/Editor, Public Library of Science, San Francisco, California, United States of America