About the Authors

Syed Abbas Bukhari

Affiliation Evolutionary Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

gca@illinois.edu

Affiliation Evolutionary Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAB GCA. Performed the experiments: SAB. Analyzed the data: SAB GCA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GCA. Wrote the paper: SAB GCA.