About the Authors

David F. Gruber

David.Gruber@baruch.cuny.edu

Affiliations Baruch College, Department of Natural Sciences, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America, The Graduate Center, Program in Biology, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America, American Museum of Natural History, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics,Central Park W at 79th St, New York, New York, United States of America

Jean P. Gaffney

Affiliation Baruch College, Department of Natural Sciences, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Shaadi Mehr

Affiliations State University of New York, Biological Science Department, College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, New York, United States of America, American Museum of Natural History, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics,Central Park W at 79th St, New York, New York, United States of America

Rob DeSalle

Affiliation American Museum of Natural History, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics,Central Park W at 79th St, New York, New York, United States of America

John S. Sparks

Affiliations American Museum of Natural History, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics,Central Park W at 79th St, New York, New York, United States of America, American Museum of Natural History, Department of Ichthyology, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Jelena Platisa

Affiliation The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Inc., New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Vincent A. Pieribone

Affiliations The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Inc., New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DFG JPG SM RD VAP. Performed the experiments: DFG JPG SM RD JP VAP. Analyzed the data: DFG JPG SM RD VAP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DFG RD JSS VAP. Wrote the paper: DFG JPG SM RD JSS VAP.