About the Authors

Maribeth O. Hassett

Contributed equally to this work with: Maribeth O. Hassett, Mark W. F. Fischer, Nicholas P. Money

Affiliation Department of Biology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, United States of America

Mark W. F. Fischer

Contributed equally to this work with: Maribeth O. Hassett, Mark W. F. Fischer, Nicholas P. Money

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Physical Science, Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, Ohio 45233, United States of America

Nicholas P. Money

Contributed equally to this work with: Maribeth O. Hassett, Mark W. F. Fischer, Nicholas P. Money

moneynp@miamioh.edu

Affiliations Department of Biology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, United States of America, Western Program, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MOH MWFF NPM. Performed the experiments: MOH. Analyzed the data: MOH MWFF NPM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MWFF. Wrote the paper: MOH NPM.