Douglas E Soltis1, Victor A Albert2,3, Jim Leebens-Mack4, Jeffrey D Palmer5, Rod A Wing6, Claude W dePamphilis7, Hong Ma7, John E Carlson8, Naomi Altman9, Sangtae Kim10, P Kerr Wall7, Andrea Zuccolo6 and Pamela S Soltis11 
1
Department of Botany and the Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
2
Joint Centre for Bioinformatics in Oslo, University of Oslo and Rikshospitalet HF, Blindern, NO-0316 Oslo, Norway
3
Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY 14260-1300, USA
4
Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
5
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
6
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
7
Department of Biology, the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, and the Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
8
School of Forest Resources, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
9
Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
10
National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon 404-170, Korea
11
Florida Museum of Natural History and the Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA