About the Authors

Jesse Salisbury

Affiliation Functional Genomics PhD Program, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America

Keith W. Hutchison

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America

Karen Wigglesworth

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

John J. Eppig

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Joel H. Graber

joel.graber@jax.org

Affiliations Functional Genomics PhD Program, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS JHG. Performed the experiments: JS KW. Analyzed the data: JS KWH JHG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJE. Wrote the paper: JS KWH JJE JHG.