About the Authors

Gu Mi

mig@stat.oregonstate.edu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Yanming Di

Affiliations Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Sarah Emerson

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Jason S. Cumbie

Affiliations Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Jeff H. Chang

Affiliations Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JSC JHC. Conceived and designed the study: GM YD SE JSC JHC. Assembled the data: GM JSC. Analyzed and interpreted the data: GM YD SE JHC. Drafted the paper: GM YD. Participated in the critical revision of the manuscript and gave final approval of the article: GM YD SE JSC JHC.