About the Authors

Carson M. Andorf

Current address: United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Vasant Honavar

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Taner Z. Sen

taner@iastate.edu

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMA TZS VH. Performed the experiments: CMA. Analyzed the data: CMA TZS VH. Wrote the paper: CMA TZS VH.