About the Authors

Ezzat El-Sherif

Current address: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Affiliation Genetics Program, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Xin Zhu

Affiliation Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Jinping Fu

Affiliation Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Susan J. Brown

sjbrown@ksu.edu

Affiliation Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EES SJB. Performed the experiments: EES XZ JF. Analyzed the data: EES XZ SJB. Wrote the paper: EES SJB.