About the Authors

Bethany A. Stahl

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL, 33458, United States of America

Joshua B. Gross

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Daniel I. Speiser

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America

Todd H. Oakley

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States of America

Nipam H. Patel

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology & Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

Douglas B. Gould

Affiliation Departments of Ophthalmology and Anatomy, Institute for Human Genetics, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Meredith E. Protas

meredith.protas@dominican.edu

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BAS JBG DIS THO NHP DBG MEP. Performed the experiments: BAS DIS MEP. Analyzed the data: BAS JBG DIS MEP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BAS JBG DIS THO NHP DBG MEP. Wrote the paper: BAS JBG DIS THO NHP DBG MEP.