About the Authors

Kohtaro Tanaka

Current address: Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciõncia, Oeiras, Portugal

Affiliation Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California–Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Olga Barmina

Affiliation Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California–Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Laura E. Sanders

Affiliation Section of Molecular and Computational Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Michelle N. Arbeitman

Current address: Department of Biomedical Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

Affiliation Section of Molecular and Computational Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Artyom Kopp

akopp@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California–Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: KT OB MNA AK. Performed the experiments: KT OB MNA AK. Analyzed the data: KT AK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LES MNA. Wrote the paper: KT MNA AK.