About the Authors

Tyrone Ryba

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Ichiro Hiratani

Current address: Biological Macromolecules Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Takayo Sasaki

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Dana Battaglia

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Michael Kulik

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Jinfeng Zhang

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Stephen Dalton

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

David M. Gilbert

gilbert@bio.fsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TR IH DMG. Performed the experiments: IH TS DB. Analyzed the data: TR JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK SD. Wrote the paper: TR DMG.