About the Authors

Yury M. Shtarkman

Contributed equally to this work with: Yury M. Shtarkman, Zeynep A. Koçer

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, United States of America

Zeynep A. Koçer

Contributed equally to this work with: Yury M. Shtarkman, Zeynep A. Koçer

Current address: Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Virology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, United States of America

Robyn Edgar

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, United States of America

Ram S. Veerapaneni

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Firelands Campus, Huron, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, United States of America

Tom D’Elia

Current address: Biological Sciences, Indian River State College, Fort Pierce, Florida, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, United States of America

Paul F. Morris

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, United States of America

Scott O. Rogers

srogers@bgsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SOR ZAK. Performed the experiments: SOR ZAK RSV TD. Analyzed the data: YMS RE PFM SOR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SOR PFM. Wrote the paper: SOR. Designed/drew figures: SOR. Produced supplementary tables: YMS SOR ZAK. Drew supplementary figures: YMS. Edited manuscript: SOR YMS ZAK RE RSV TD PFM.