About the Authors

Suleyman Yildirim

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Carl J. Yeoman

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Maksim Sipos

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Manolito Torralba

Affiliation The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Brenda A. Wilson

Affiliations The Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Tony L. Goldberg

Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Rebecca M. Stumpf

Affiliations The Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Steven R. Leigh

Affiliations The Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Bryan A. White

bwhite44@illinois.edu

Affiliations The Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Karen E. Nelson

Affiliation The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SY BAW TLG RS SRL BAW. Performed the experiments: SY MS MT TLG. Analyzed the data: SY CJY BAW TLG RS SRL BAW KEN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS MT TLG KEN. Wrote the paper: SY CJY BAW TLG SRL BAW KEN.