About the Authors

Zachary J. Whitfield

Affiliation Whitehead Institute, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jennifer Chisholm

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

R. Scott Hawley

Affiliations Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Terry L. Orr-Weaver

weaver@wi.mit.edu

Affiliation Whitehead Institute, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 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: ZJW TOW. Performed the experiments: ZJW JC. Analyzed the data: ZJW TOW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RSH. Wrote the paper: ZJW TOW.