About the Authors

Erin M. Kollitz

Affiliations Toxicology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

Guozhu Zhang

Affiliation Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Mary Beth Hawkins

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

G. Kerr Whitfield

Affiliation Department of Basic Medical Sciences, The University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

David M. Reif

Affiliations Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Seth W. Kullman

swkullma@ncsu.edu

Affiliation Toxicology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: EMK SWK. Formal analysis: EMK GZ. Funding acquisition: SWK EMK. Investigation: EMK. Methodology: EMK SWK GZ DMR MBH GKW. Project administration: SWK. Resources: SWK MBH DMR GKW. Software: GZ DMR. Supervision: SWK. Validation: EMK. Visualization: EMK GZ. Writing – original draft: EMK. Writing – review & editing: EMK GZ MBH GKW DMR SWK.