About the Authors

Gerald S. Wilkinson

wilkinso@umd.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Philip M. Johns

Affiliation Biology Program, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, United States of America

Jackie D. Metheny

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Richard H. Baker

Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GSW PMJ RHB. Performed the experiments: PMJ JDM. Analyzed the data: GSW RHB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GSW RHB. Wrote the paper: GSW PMJ JDM RHB.