About the Authors

Lisa L. Ellis

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Wen Huang

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Andrew M. Quinn

Affiliations Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Astha Ahuja

Affiliation Baylor Human Genome Sequencing Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ben Alfrejd

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Francisco E. Gomez

Affiliation Department of Soil and Crop Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Carl E. Hjelmen

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Kristi L. Moore

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Trudy F. C. Mackay

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

J. Spencer Johnston

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Aaron M. Tarone

amtarone@ag.tamu.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMT JSJ. Performed the experiments: LLE JSJ AMT CEH AA BA FEG KLM AMQ. Analyzed the data: LLE AMT JSJ WH TFCM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMT JSJ TFCM. Wrote the paper: LLE WH JSJ TFCM AMT.