About the Authors

J. Jacob Parnell

jacob.parnell@usu.edu

Affiliation Center for Integrated BioSystems, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Giovanni Rompato

Affiliation Center for Integrated BioSystems, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Leigh C. Latta IV

Affiliation Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Michael E. Pfrender

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America, Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Joy D. Van Nostrand

Affiliation Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Zhili He

Affiliation Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Jizhong Zhou

Affiliation Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Gary Andersen

Affiliation Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Patti Champine

Affiliation Center for Integrated BioSystems, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Balasubramanian Ganesan

Affiliations Center for Integrated BioSystems, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America, Department of Nutrition & Food Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Bart C. Weimer

Current address: School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Affiliations Center for Integrated BioSystems, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America, Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America, Department of Nutrition & Food Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JJP GR MEP BCW. Performed the experiments: JJP GR JDVN. Analyzed the data: JJP LCL MEP JDVN BG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJP GR LCL MEP JDVN ZH JZ GLA BCW. Wrote the paper: JJP MEP PC BCW.