About the Authors

Ying Wang

wang@biology.msstate.edu (YW); zirbel@bgsu.edu (CLZ); leontis@bgsu.edu (NBL)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, United States of America

Craig L. Zirbel

wang@biology.msstate.edu (YW); zirbel@bgsu.edu (CLZ); leontis@bgsu.edu (NBL)

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, United States of America

Neocles B. Leontis

wang@biology.msstate.edu (YW); zirbel@bgsu.edu (CLZ); leontis@bgsu.edu (NBL)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, United States of America

Biao Ding

† Deceased.

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, The Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.