About the Authors

Lijie Sun

Affiliations Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Synthetic Biology & Bioenergy, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Hong-Mei Li

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Manfredo J. Seufferheld

Affiliation Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Kent R. Walters Jr.

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Venu M. Margam

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Amber Jannasch

Affiliation Metabolomics Profiling Facility at Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Naomi Diaz

Affiliation Metabolomics Profiling Facility at Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Catherine P. Riley

Affiliation Metabolomics Profiling Facility at Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Weilin Sun

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Yueh-Feng Li

Affiliations Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Chung Hwa College of Medical Technology, Jen-Te Hsiang, Tainan, Taiwan

William M. Muir

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Jun Xie

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Jing Wu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Fan Zhang

Affiliation School of Informatics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Jake Y. Chen

Affiliation School of Informatics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Eric L. Barker

Affiliation Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Jiri Adamec

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Barry R. Pittendrigh

pittendr@illinois.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LS HML MJS KW VM AJ ND CPR WS YFL WMM JX FZ JYC ELB JA BRP. Performed the experiments: LS HML KW VM AJ ND CPR WS YFL FZ. Analyzed the data: LS HML MJS KW WS WMM JX FZ JYC ELB JA BRP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJS WMM JX JW FZ JYC JA BRP. Wrote the paper: LS HML MJS KW AJ ND CPR WMM JX JW FZ JYC ELB JA BRP.