1Livestock Arthropod Pests Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Kerrville, TX USA 
2Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT USA 
3Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California – Davis, Davis, CA USA 
4The Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH USA 
5Department of Entomology, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX USA 
6Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI USA 
7Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN USA 
8Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH USA 
9Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland 
10The European Molecular Biology Laboratory, The European Bioinformatics Institute, The Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD UK 
11Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA USA 
12Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX USA 
13National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD USA 
14Arthropod-borne Animal Diseases Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Manhattan, KS USA 
15Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN USA 
16Section of Vector Biology, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, MD USA 
17Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL USA 
18Department of Biology, Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, OH USA 
19Informatics Group, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA 
20Department of Entomology, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Stephenville, TX USA 
21Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX USA 
22Agroecosystem Management Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Lincoln, NE USA 
23University of Missouri, Bond Life Sciences Center, Columbia, MO USA 
24Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 
25Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Divisions of Biomedical Informatics and Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH USA 
26Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH USA 
27Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY USA 
28Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH USA 
29College of Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH USA