About the Authors

Yong Huang

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology, Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Xun Gu

xgu@iastate.edu

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology, Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, School of Life Sciences, Center for Evolutionary Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH XG. Performed the experiments: YH XG. Analyzed the data: YH XG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XG. Wrote the paper: YH XG.