About the Authors

Alexsandra Schneider

ale-schneider@live.com (AS); eduardo.eizirik@pucrs.br (EE)

Affiliation Laboratório de Biologia Genômica e Molecular, Faculdade de Biociências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

Victor A. David

Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Warren E. Johnson

Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen J. O'Brien

Affiliations Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Informatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Gregory S. Barsh

Affiliation HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America

Marilyn Menotti-Raymond

Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Eduardo Eizirik

ale-schneider@live.com (AS); eduardo.eizirik@pucrs.br (EE)

Affiliations Laboratório de Biologia Genômica e Molecular, Faculdade de Biociências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, Instituto Pró-Carnívoros, Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EE AS. Performed the experiments: AS VAD. Analyzed the data: AS VAD EE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WEJ MMR GSB SJO. Wrote the paper: AS EE.