About the Authors

Wei Chen

Affiliations Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America , Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Margit Foss

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Kuo-Fu Tseng

Affiliations Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America , Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Dahong Zhang

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: zhangd@science.oregonstate.edu

Affiliations Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America , Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing (CGRB), Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

DZ conceived and designed the experiments. WC, DZ, and KT performed the experiments. DZ, WC, MF, and KT analyzed the data. MF, DZ, and WC wrote the paper.