About the Authors

Lynne U. Sneddon

lsneddon@liverpool.ac.uk

Affiliation Institute of Integrative Biology and Centre for Genomic Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Rupert Schmidt

Affiliation Zentrale Biotechnische Betriebseinheit, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Yongxiang Fang

Affiliation Institute of Integrative Biology and Centre for Genomic Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Andrew R. Cossins

Affiliation Institute of Integrative Biology and Centre for Genomic Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LUS RS ARC. Performed the experiments: LUS RS. Analyzed the data: LUS YF ARC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ARC RS. Wrote the paper: LUS RS YF ARC.