diff --git a/adam-core/src/main/scala/org/bdgenomics/adam/rdd/feature/FeatureRDD.scala b/adam-core/src/main/scala/org/bdgenomics/adam/rdd/feature/FeatureRDD.scala
index e06e3e83fe..7e0c275ead 100644
--- a/adam-core/src/main/scala/org/bdgenomics/adam/rdd/feature/FeatureRDD.scala
+++ b/adam-core/src/main/scala/org/bdgenomics/adam/rdd/feature/FeatureRDD.scala
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import org.bdgenomics.utils.interval.array.{
 }
 import org.bdgenomics.utils.misc.Logging
 import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
+import scala.math.max
 import scala.reflect.ClassTag
 
 private[adam] case class FeatureArray(
@@ -116,8 +117,8 @@ object FeatureRDD {
     // create sequence records with length max(start, end) + 1L
     val sequenceRecords = rdd
       .keyBy(_.getContigName)
-      .map(kv => (kv._1, Math.max(kv._2.getStart, kv._2.getEnd) + 1L))
-      .reduceByKey(math.max(_, _))
+      .map(kv => (kv._1, max(kv._2.getStart, kv._2.getEnd) + 1L))
+      .reduceByKey(max(_, _))
       .map(kv => SequenceRecord(kv._1, kv._2))
 
     val sd = new SequenceDictionary(sequenceRecords.collect.toVector)