About the Authors

Shay Covo

Contributed equally to this work with: Shay Covo, Eric Chiou

shay.covo@mail.huji.ac.il

Current address: Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Eric Chiou

Contributed equally to this work with: Shay Covo, Eric Chiou

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Dmitry A. Gordenin

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Michael A. Resnick

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC DAG MAR. Performed the experiments: SC EC. Analyzed the data: SC EC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SC EC. Wrote the paper: SC EC DAG MAR.