About the Authors

Ernest K. Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Ernest K. Lee, Angelica Cibrian-Jaramillo, Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis

Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Angelica Cibrian-Jaramillo

Contributed equally to this work with: Ernest K. Lee, Angelica Cibrian-Jaramillo, Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis

Current address: National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO), Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico

Affiliations Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America, Cullman Program in Molecular Systematics, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis

Contributed equally to this work with: Ernest K. Lee, Angelica Cibrian-Jaramillo, Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Manpreet S. Katari

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Alexandros Stamatakis

Current address: Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Michael Ott

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Joanna C. Chiu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Damon P. Little

Affiliation Cullman Program in Molecular Systematics, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Dennis Wm. Stevenson

Affiliation Cullman Program in Molecular Systematics, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York, United States of America

W. Richard McCombie

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Robert A. Martienssen

martiens@cshl.edu (RAM); desalle@amnh.org (RD)

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Gloria Coruzzi

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Rob DeSalle

martiens@cshl.edu (RAM); desalle@amnh.org (RD)

Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EKL DWS WRM RAM GC RD. Performed the experiments: EKL AC-J S-OK MSK. Analyzed the data: EKL AC-J S-OK MSK AS MO DPL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RD EKL MSK AS JCC WRM RAM GC. Wrote the paper: EKL AC-J S-OK MSK DWS RAM RD.