About the Authors

Srihari Radhakrishnan

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

Robert Literman

Affiliations Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

Jennifer Neuwald

Current address: Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

Andrew Severin

Affiliations Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America, Genome Informatics Facility, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

Nicole Valenzuela

nvalenzu@iastate.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NV SR. Data curation: SR RL. Formal analysis: SR. Funding acquisition: NV. Investigation: RL JN SR. Methodology: NV SR. Project administration: NV. Resources: AS. Software: AS SR. Supervision: NV. Validation: NV SR RL. Visualization: SR NV. Writing – original draft: SR NV. Writing – review & editing: SR NV RL AS JN.