About the Authors

Cédric Debès

Affiliation Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany

Minglei Wang

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

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

gca@illinois.edu (GCA); frauke.graeter@h-its.org (FG)

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

Frauke Gräter

gca@illinois.edu (GCA); frauke.graeter@h-its.org (FG)

Affiliations Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany, CAS-MPG Partner Institute and Key Laboratory for Computational Biology, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GCA FG. Performed the experiments: CD MW. Analyzed the data: CD MW GCA FG. Wrote the paper: CD MW GCA FG.