Nasonia Genome Sequencing and Analysis Working Group - Authors

The following is a list of the members of the Nasonia Genome Working Group and their affiliations:

John H. Werren^1*, Stephen Richards^2*, Christopher A. Desjardins¹, Oliver Niehuis^3†, Jürgen Gadau³, John K. Colbourne⁴, Leo W. Beukeboom⁵, Claude Desplan⁶, Christine G. Elsik⁷, Cornelis J P. Grimmelikhuijzen⁸, Paul Kitts⁹, Jeremy Lynch¹⁰, Terence Murphy⁹, Deodoro C. S. G. Oliveira^1‡, Christopher D. Smith^11,12, Louis van de Zande⁵, Kim C. Worley², Evgeny M. Zdobnov^13,14,15, Maarten Aerts¹⁶, Stefan Albert¹⁷, Victor H. Anaya¹⁸, Juan M. Anzola¹⁹, Angel R. Barchuk²⁰, Susanta K. Behura²¹, Agata N. Bera²², May R. Berenbaum²³, Rinaldo C. Bertossa²⁴, Márcia M G. Bitondi²⁵, Seth R. Bordenstein^26,27, Peer Bork²⁸, Erich Bornberg-Bauer²⁹, Marleen Brunain³⁰, Giuseppe Cazzamali⁸, Lesley Chaboub², Joseph Chacko², Dean Chavez², Christopher P. Childers⁷, Jeong-Hyeon Choi⁴, Michael E. Clark¹, Charles Claudianos³¹, Rochelle A. Clinton³², Andrew G. Cree², Alexandre S. Cristino³³, Phat M. Dang³⁴, Alistair C. Darby³⁵, Dirk C. de Graaf³⁰, Bart Devreese¹⁶, Huyen H. Dinh², Rachel Edwards¹, Navin Elango³⁶, Eran Elhaik³⁷, Olga Ermolaeva⁹, Jay D. Evans³⁸, Sylvain Foret³⁹, Gerald R. Fowler², Daniel Gerlach¹³, Joshua D. Gibson³, Donald G. Gilbert⁴⁰, Dan Graur³⁷, Stefan Gründer⁴¹, Darren E. Hagen⁷, Yi Han², Frank Hauser⁸, Da Hultmark⁴², Henry C. Hunter IV¹¹, Gregory D. D. Hurst³⁵, Shalini N. Jhangian², Huaiyang Jiang², Reed M. Johnson⁴³, Andrew K. Jones²², Thomas Junier¹³, Tatsuhiko Kadowaki⁴⁴, Albert Kamping⁵, Yuri Kapustin⁹, Bobak Kechavarzi⁴⁵, Jaebum Kim⁴⁶, Jay Kim¹¹, Boris Kiryutin⁹, Tosca Koevoets⁵, Christie L. Kovar², Evgenia V. Kriventseva⁴⁷, Robert Kucharski⁴⁸, Heewook Lee⁴⁵, Sandra L. Lee², Kristin Lees²², Lora R. Lewis², David W. Loehlin¹, John M. Logsdon, Jr⁴⁹, Jacqueline A. Lopez⁴, Ryan J. Lozado², Donna Maglott⁹, Ryszard Maleszka⁴⁸, Anoop Mayampurath⁴⁵, Danielle J. Mazur⁴⁹, Marcella A. McClure³², Andrew D. Moore²⁹, Margaret B. Morgan², Jean Muller²⁸, Monica C. Munoz-Torres^7,50, Donna M. Muzny², Lynne V. Nazareth², Susanne Neupert⁵¹, Ngoc B. Nguyen², Francis M F. Nunes^25,52, John G. Oakeshott⁵³, Geoffrey O. Okwuonu², Bart A. Pannebakker^5,54, Vikas R. Pejaver⁴⁵, Zuogang Peng³⁶, Stephen C. Pratt³, Reinhard Predel⁵¹, Ling- Ling Pu², Hilary Ranson⁵⁵, Rhitoban Raychoudhury¹, Andreas Rechtsteiner^56,4, Justin T. Reese⁷, Jeffrey G. Reid², Megan Riddle⁵⁷, Hugh M. Robertson²³, Jeanne Romero-Severson⁵⁸, Miriam Rosenberg⁶, Timothy B. Sackton⁵⁹, David B. Sattelle²², Helge Schlüns⁶⁰, Thomas Schmitt⁶¹, Martina Schneider⁸, Andreas Schüler²⁹, Andrew M. Schurko⁴⁹, David M. Shuker⁶², Zilá L P. Simões²⁵, Saurabh Sinha⁴⁶, Zachary Smith⁴, Victor Solovyev⁶³, Alexandre Souvorov⁹, Andreas Springauf⁴¹, Elisabeth Stafflinger⁸, Deborah E. Stage¹, Mario Stanke⁶⁴, Yoshiaki Tanaka⁶⁵, Arndt Telschow²⁹, Carol Trent⁵⁷, Selina Vattathil², Eveline C. Verhulst⁵, Lumi Viljakainen⁶⁶, Kevin W. Wanner⁶⁷, Robert M. Waterhouse¹⁵, James B. Whitfield²³, Timothy E. Wilkes³⁵, Michael Williamson⁸, Judith H. Willis⁶⁸, Florian Wolschin^69,3, Stefan Wyder¹³, Takuji Yamada²⁸, Soojin V. Yi³⁶, Courtney N. Zecher²⁷, Lan Zhang², Richard A. Gibbs².

1. Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 14627, USA.
2. Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
3. School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA.
4. The Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA.
5. Evolutionary Genetics - Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, University of Groningen, 9750 AA Haren, Netherlands.
6. Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY, 10003, USA.
7. Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 20057, USA.
8. Center for Comparative and Functional Insect Genomics, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
9. National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA.
10. Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Universität zu Köln, 50923 Köln, Germany.
11. Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 94132, USA.
12. Drosophila Heterochromatin Genome Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
13. Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
14. Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
15. Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
16. Laboratory of Protein Biochemistry and Biomolecular Engineering, Ghent University, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
17. BEEgroup and Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Würzburg, 97082 Würzburg, Germany.
18. Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
19. Animal Science and Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
20. Departamento de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade Federal de Alfenas, Alfenas, MG, 37130-000, Brazil.
21. Eck Institute for Global Health, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA.
22. Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QX, UK.
23. Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
24. Chronobiology - Centre for Behaviour and Neurosciences, University of Groningen, 9750 AA Haren, Netherlands.
25. Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, 14040-901, Brazil.
26. Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA.
27. Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, 02536, USA.
28. European Molecular Biology Laboratory, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
29. Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, 48143 Münster, Germany.
30. Laboratory of Zoophysiology, Ghent University, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
31. The Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
32. Department of Microbiology and the Center for Computational Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 59715, USA.
33. Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Departamento de Física e Informática, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, 13560-970, Brazil.
34. Subtropical Insects Research Unit, USDA, ARS, U.S. Horticultural Research Lab., Fort Pierce, FL, 34945, USA.
35. School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZB, UK.
36. School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.
37. Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 77204, USA.
38. Bee Research Lab, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, 20705, USA.
39. ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, 4811, Australia.
40. Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA.
41. Institute of Physiology, RWTH Aachen University, D-52074, Germany.
42. Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, S-901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
43. Department of Entomology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 68583-0816, USA.
44. Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601, JAPAN.
45. School of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA.
46. Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
47. Department of Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Geneva Medical School, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
48. Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia.
49. Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics and Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
50. Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA.
51. Institute of General Zoology, University of Jena, D-7743 Jena, Germany.
52. Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Genética, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, 14049-900, Brazil.
53. Department of Entomology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia.
54. Institute of Evolutionary Biology - School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, UK.
55. Vector Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK.
56. Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA.
57. Department of Biology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, 98225, USA.
58. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA.
59. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.
60. School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia.
61. Department of Evolutionary Biology and Animal Ecology, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
62. School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9TH, UK.
63. Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK.
64. Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Universität Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
65. Division of Insect Sciences, National Institute of Agrobiological Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8634, Japan.
66. Department of Biology, University of Oulu, 90014 Oulu, Finland.
67. Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, Montana State University, Bozemann, MT, 59717, USA.
68. Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
69. Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry, and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, N-1432 Ås, Norway.

*These authors contributed equally to this work. Corresponding authors:Jack Werren, Stephen Richards

^†Current address: Verhaltensbiologie, Universität Osnabrück, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany.

^‡Current address: Departament de Genètica i de Microbiologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 8193 Bellaterra, Spain.