About the Authors

Wiep Klaas Smits

Current address: Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alan D. Grossman

adg@mit.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WKS ADG. Performed the experiments: WKS. Analyzed the data: WKS ADG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WKS ADG. Wrote the paper: WKS ADG.