About the Authors

Elhan S. Ersoz

Contributed equally to this work with: Elhan S. Ersoz, Mark H. Wright

Current address: Syngenta Biotechnology Inc., Stanton, Minnesota, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Mark H. Wright

Contributed equally to this work with: Elhan S. Ersoz, Mark H. Wright

Affiliation Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Santiago C. González-Martínez

Affiliations Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Forest Systems and Resources, Center of Forest Research, Centro de Investigacion Forestal, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria-CIFOR-INIA, Madrid, Spain

Charles H. Langley

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

David B. Neale

dbneale@ucdavis.edu

Affiliations Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Institute of Forest Genetics, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DN. Performed the experiments: ESE. Analyzed the data: ESE MHW. Wrote the paper: ESE MHW SCGM. Consulted with the other authors for the analysis methods to be used and the direction the paper took: CHL.