About the Authors

Shouqiang Ouyang

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Gyungsoon Park

Current address: Department of Electrical and Biological Physics, Plasma Bioscience Research Center, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Hagop S. Atamian

Current address: Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Nematology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Cliff S. Han

Affiliation Bioscience Division, MS M888, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Jason E. Stajich

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Isgouhi Kaloshian

Affiliation Department of Nematology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Katherine A. Borkovich

Katherine.Borkovich@ucr.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KAB IK JES CSH SO. Performed the experiments: SO GP HSA JES. Analyzed the data: KAB IK JES SO GP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CH JES IK. Wrote the paper: KAB IK SO GP JS.