About the Authors

Jennifer L Kabat

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology and Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Sergio Barberan-Soler

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology and Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Paul McKenna

Current address: Department of Biology and Center for Computing for Life Sciences, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Hiram Clawson

Affiliation Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Tracy Farrer

Current address: University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology and Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Alan M Zahler

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: zahler@biology.ucsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology and Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

JLK, SBS, PM, and AMZ conceived and designed the experiments. JLK, SBS, PM, and TF performed the experiments. JLK, SBS, HC, TF, and AMZ analyzed the data. SBS and HC contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. JLK and AMZ wrote the paper.