About the Authors

Malina A. Bakowski

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Christopher A. Desjardins

Affiliation The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Margery G. Smelkinson

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Tiffany A. Dunbar

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Isaac F. Lopez-Moyado

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Scott A. Rifkin

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Christina A. Cuomo

Affiliation The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Emily R. Troemel

etroemel@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAB ERT. Performed the experiments: MAB TAD MGS ERT. Analyzed the data: MAB CAD CAC IFLM SAR ERT. Wrote the paper: MAB ERT.