About the Authors

Brian E. Caffrey

Contributed equally to this work with: Brian E. Caffrey, Tom A. Williams

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Tom A. Williams

Contributed equally to this work with: Brian E. Caffrey, Tom A. Williams

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Xiaowei Jiang

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Christina Toft

Affiliation Department of Molecular Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Karsten Hokamp

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Mario A. Fares

faresm@tcd.ie

Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Integrative Systems Biology Group, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, CSIC-Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Valencia, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAF. Performed the experiments: BC TAW CT XJ KH. Analyzed the data: BC MAF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAF. Wrote the paper: MAF BC.