About the Authors

Carene Rizzon

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America , Department of Statistics and Genomics, Universite´ Evry Val d'Essonne, Evry, France

Loic Ponger

Affiliation Régulation et Dynamique des Génomes, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Brandon S Gaut

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bgaut@uci.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

BSG, CR, and LP conceived and designed the experiments. CR performed the experiments. CR and LP analyzed the data. LP and CR contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. CR and BSG wrote the paper.