About the Authors

Wasila M. Dahdul

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Affiliations Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States of America, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

James P. Balhoff

Affiliations National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

David C. Blackburn

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology and Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Alexander D. Diehl

Affiliation The Jacobs Neurological Institute, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Melissa A. Haendel

Affiliation Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Brian K. Hall

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Hilmar Lapp

Affiliation National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

John G. Lundberg

Affiliation Department of Ichthyology, The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Christopher J. Mungall

Affiliation Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Martin Ringwald

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Erik Segerdell

Affiliation Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Ceri E. Van Slyke

Affiliation Zebrafish Information Network, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

Matthew K. Vickaryous

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Monte Westerfield

Affiliations Zebrafish Information Network, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

Paula M. Mabee

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: WMD JPB DCB ADD MAH BKH HL JGL CJM MR ES CEVS MKV MW PMM. Maintained and updated ontologies: WMD ADD MAH CJM ES CEVS. Developed the figures: WMD BKH MKV PMM.