About the Authors

Brenda Oppert

bso@ksu.edu

Affiliation USDA Agricultural Research Service, Center for Grain and Animal Health Research, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Scot E. Dowd

Affiliation Molecular Research LP, Shallowater, Texas, United States of America

Pascal Bouffard

Current address: Protein Expression Sciences, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, New York, United States of America

Affiliation 454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company, Branford, Connecticut, United States of America

Lewyn Li

Affiliation 454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company, Branford, Connecticut, United States of America

Ana Conesa

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Genomics Department, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, Spain

Marcé D. Lorenzen

Affiliation Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Michelle Toutges

Affiliation USDA Agricultural Research Service, Center for Grain and Animal Health Research, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Jeremy Marshall

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Diana L. Huestis

Current address: Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Jeff Fabrick

Affiliation USDA ARS U.S. Arid Land Agricultural Research Center, Maricopa, Arizona, United States of America

Cris Oppert

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BO JF CO JLJ. Performed the experiments: BO PB LL MT JM DLH. Analyzed the data: BO SED LL AC MDL MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BO PB LL. Wrote the paper: BO AC MDL JF CO JLJ.