About the Authors

Nicholas Christodoulides

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas Christodoulides, Alex R. Van Dam, Nate B. Hardy

nzc0035@auburn.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Alex R. Van Dam

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas Christodoulides, Alex R. Van Dam, Nate B. Hardy

Current address: Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Affiliation Biosynthetic Pathways Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Denmark Technical University, Søltofts plads, Lyngby, Denmark

Daniel A. Peterson

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rasmus John Normand Frandsen

Affiliation Biosynthetic Pathways Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Denmark Technical University, Søltofts plads, Lyngby, Denmark

Uffe Hasbro Mortensen

Affiliation Biosynthetic Pathways Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Denmark Technical University, Søltofts plads, Lyngby, Denmark

Bent Petersen

Affiliation Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet, Lyngby, Denmark

Simon Rasmussen

Affiliation Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet, Lyngby, Denmark

Benjamin B. Normark

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nate B. Hardy

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas Christodoulides, Alex R. Van Dam, Nate B. Hardy

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NC AVD NBH DAP BBN RJNF UHM BP SR. Data curation: NC AVD NBH DAP BBN. Formal analysis: NC NBH AVD. Funding acquisition: AVD. Investigation: NC AVD NBH DAP BBN. Methodology: NC AVD NBH DAP BBN. Project administration: NC AVD NBH DAP BBN. Resources: NC AVD NBH DAP BBN RJNF UHM BP SR. Software: NC AVD NBH DAP BBN. Supervision: NC NBH AVD. Validation: NC NBH AVD. Visualization: NC NBH. Writing – original draft: NC. Writing – review & editing: NC AVD NBH DAP BBN.