About the Authors

Melissa A. Wilson Sayres

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Charles Hauser

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Michael Sierk

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bioinformatics Program, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Srebrenka Robic

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America

Anne G. Rosenwald

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Todd M. Smith

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Digital World Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Eric W. Triplett

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Microbiology and Cell Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jason J. Williams

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Elizabeth Dinsdale

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

William R. Morgan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America

James M. Burnette III

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Samuel S. Donovan

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jennifer C. Drew

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Microbiology and Cell Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Sarah C. R. Elgin

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Edison R. Fowlks

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, United States of America

Sebastian Galindo-Gonzalez

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Education and Communication, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Anya L. Goodman

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, United States of America

Nealy F. Grandgenett

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Teacher Education, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Carlos C. Goller

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

John R. Jungck

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Jeffrey D. Newman

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States of America

William Pearson

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Elizabeth F. Ryder

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rafael Tosado-Acevedo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Metropolitan Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States of America

William Tapprich

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Tammy C. Tobin

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Arlín Toro-Martínez

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences, Inter American University of Puerto Rico, San Germán Campus, San Germán, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Lonnie R. Welch

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Robin Wright

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Division of Undergraduate Education, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology Teaching and Learning, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Lindsay Barone

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

David Ebenbach

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Mindy McWilliams

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Kimberly C. Olney

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Mark A. Pauley

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mpauley@unomaha.edu

Current address: Division of Undergraduate Education, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation School of Interdisciplinary Informatics, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

We declare that author TMS has an affiliation with a private company, Digital World Biology (DWB). As noted in the updated Funding Statement, DWB provided support for this work in the form of salary for TMS. This affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.