About the Authors

Talia Karasov

Contributed equally to this work with: Talia Karasov, Philipp W. Messer

Philipp W. Messer

Contributed equally to this work with: Talia Karasov, Philipp W. Messer

Dmitri A. Petrov

dpetrov@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TK PWM DAP. Performed the experiments: TK PWM. Analyzed the data: TK PWM DAP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK PWM DAP. Wrote the paper: TK PWM DAP.