About the Authors

Michelle F. Goody

Affiliation Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America

Meghan W. Kelly

Affiliation Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America

Christine J. Reynolds

Affiliation Department of Biology, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, United States of America

Andre Khalil

Affiliations Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America, Institute for Molecular Biophysics, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America

Bryan D. Crawford

Affiliation University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Clarissa A. Henry

clarissa.henry@umit.maine.edu

Affiliations Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America, Institute for Molecular Biophysics, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America, School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: MFG CAH. Performed the experiments: MFG MWK CJR BC. Analyzed the data: MFG MWK CJR AJK BC CAH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJK. Wrote the paper: MFG MWK CAH.