About the Authors

Brigitte LeBoeuf

Contributed equally to this work with: Brigitte LeBoeuf, Todd R Gruninger

Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Todd R Gruninger

Contributed equally to this work with: Brigitte LeBoeuf, Todd R Gruninger

Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

L. Rene Garcia

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rgarcia@mail.bio.tamu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

BL, TRG, and LRG conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, and wrote the paper.