About the Authors

Olivia S. Sakhon

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Kaitlin A. Victor

Current address: Graduate Program in Human Genetics, The McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, Center for Disease Vector Research and Department of Entomology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Anthony Choy

Affiliation Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, Center for Disease Vector Research and Department of Entomology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Tokuji Tsuchiya

Affiliation Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, Center for Plant Cell Biology, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Thomas Eulgem

Affiliation Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, Center for Plant Cell Biology, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Joao H. F. Pedra

jpedra@som.umaryland.edu

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, Center for Disease Vector Research and Department of Entomology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OSS TE JHFP. Performed the experiments: OSS KAV AC TT. Analyzed the data: OSS TT TE JHFP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TE JHFP. Wrote the paper: OSS JHFP.