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vol. 115 no. 27 7063-7068

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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719798115

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Published in issue July 3, 2018.
Published first June 18, 2018.

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Copyright © 2018 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND).

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Moira R. Conith^a,
Yinan Hu^b,^c,
Andrew J. Conith^d,
Maura A. Maginnis^d,
Jacqueline F. Webb^b, and
R. Craig Albertson^d,¹

^aGraduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003;
^bDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881;
^cBiology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467;
^dDepartment of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003

Edited by Hopi E. Hoekstra, HHMI and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and approved May 29, 2018 (received for review November 13, 2017)

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↵¹To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: albertson{at}bio.umass.edu.

Author contributions: M.R.C. and R.C.A. designed research; M.R.C., Y.H., A.J.C., M.A.M., J.F.W., and R.C.A. performed research; M.R.C., Y.H., A.J.C., J.F.W., and R.C.A. analyzed data; and M.R.C., A.J.C., and R.C.A. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1719798115/-/DCSupplemental.

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