About the Authors

Colin A. Chavel

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Heather M. Dionne

Current address: Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Barbara Birkaya

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Jyoti Joshi

Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Medicine and Dentistry, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Paul J. Cullen

pjcullen@buffalo.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAC HMD PJC. Performed the experiments: CAC HMD BB JJ. Analyzed the data: HMD JJ PJC. Wrote the paper: CAC PJC.