About the Authors

Gregory S. Barsh

Affiliations HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Geraldine Butler

Affiliation School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Gregory P. Copenhaver

gcopenhaver@bio.unc.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology and the Integrative Program for Biological and Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Sean Crosson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

Affiliation Department of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Eva H. Stukenbrock

Affiliations Environmental Genomics, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: All authors are members of the Editorial Board of PLOS Genetics.