About the Authors

Jonathan M. Dreyfuss

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan M. Dreyfuss, Jeremy D. Zucker

Affiliation Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeremy D. Zucker

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan M. Dreyfuss, Jeremy D. Zucker

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Tardigrade Biotechnologies, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States of America

Heather M. Hood

Affiliation Institute of Environmental Health, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Linda R. Ocasio

Affiliation Tardigrade Biotechnologies, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States of America

Matthew S. Sachs

Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

James E. Galagan

jgalag@bu.edu

Affiliations Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JEG. Performed the experiments: JMD JDZ HMH. Analyzed the data: JMD JDZ HMH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSS. Wrote the paper: JMD JDZ LRO MSS JEG.