About the Authors

Simon Renny-Byfield

Affiliation School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Ales Kovařík

Affiliation Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic

Michael Chester

Affiliations School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, Laboratory of Molecular Systematics and Evolutionary Genetics, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Richard A. Nichols

Affiliation School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Jiri Macas

Affiliation Biology Centre ASCR, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Petr Novák

Affiliation Biology Centre ASCR, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Andrew R. Leitch

a.r.leitch@qmul.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ARL SRB RAN AK. Performed the experiments: SRB MC JM PN AK. Analyzed the data: SRB PN JM AK RAN ARL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK JM PN SRB. Wrote the paper: SRB ARL AK JM PN MC RAN.