About the Authors

Daniel J. Hunter

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel J. Hunter, Jessica L. Torkelson

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, United States of America

Jessica L. Torkelson

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel J. Hunter, Jessica L. Torkelson

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, United States of America

James Bodnar

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, United States of America

Bobak Mortazavi

Affiliation Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Timothy Laurent

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, United States of America

Jeff Deason

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, United States of America

Khanhkeo Thephavongsa

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, United States of America

Jianmin Zhong

jz15@humboldt.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZ. Performed the experiments: DJH JLT JB BM TL JD KT. Analyzed the data: DJH JLT JB JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ. Wrote the paper: DJH JLT JB JZ. Wrote the computer source code: BM.