About the Authors

Yi Zhang

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Zhiyong Shao

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Zhiwei Zhai

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Chuan Shen

Current address: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Jo Anne Powell-Coffman

japc@iastate.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ ZS ZZ JAPC. Performed the experiments: YZ ZS ZZ CS. Analyzed the data: YZ ZS ZZ JAPC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ CS. Wrote the paper: YZ ZS JAPC. Principal Investigator: JAPC. Designed and conducted the screen to isolate hif-1 (ia07): CS.