About the Authors

Qingyun Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Qingyun Li, Scott Barish

Affiliation Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Scott Barish

Contributed equally to this work with: Qingyun Li, Scott Barish

Affiliation Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Sumie Okuwa

Affiliation Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Abigail Maciejewski

Affiliation Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Alicia T. Brandt

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Dominik Reinhold

Affiliations Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Corbin D. Jones

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Pelin Cayirlioglu Volkan

pc72@duke.edu

Affiliations Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QL SB PCV. Performed the experiments: QL SB SO ATB AM. Analyzed the data: QL SB DR CDJ PCV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QL SB SO PCV. Wrote the paper: QL SB PCV CDJ. Bioinformatic analysis: QL DR ATB CDJ.