About the Authors

Anton Nekrutenko

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: anton@bx.psu.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America , Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America , The Huck Institutes for Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Samir Wadhawan

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America , Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America , The Huck Institutes for Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Paula Goetting-Minesky

Affiliations Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America , Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kateryna D Makova

Affiliation Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

AN, SW, and KM conceived and designed the experiments. SW and PGM performed the experiments. AN analyzed the data. KM contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. AN wrote the paper.