About the Authors

Gerton Lunter

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: lunter@stats.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations MRC Functional Genetics Unit, Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom , Department of Statistics, Bioinformatics Group, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Chris P Ponting

Affiliation MRC Functional Genetics Unit, Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Jotun Hein

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Bioinformatics Group, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

GL conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, and analyzed the data. GL, CPP, and JH contributed to ongoing discussions on molecular evolution and comparative genomics. GL and CPP wrote the paper.