About the Authors

Jennifer L. Hackett

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, Kansas, 66045, United States of America

Xiaofei Wang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, Kansas, 66045, United States of America

Brittny R. Smith

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, Kansas, 66045, United States of America

Stuart J. Macdonald

sjmac@ku.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, Kansas, 66045, United States of America, Center for Computational Biology, University of Kansas, 2030 Becker Drive, Lawrence, Kansas, 66047, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SJM. Formal analysis: SJM XW. Funding acquisition: SJM. Investigation: JLH XW BRS. Methodology: SJM XW. Project administration: SJM. Software: SJM XW. Supervision: SJM. Visualization: SJM. Writing – original draft: SJM. Writing – review & editing: SJM.