About the Authors

Santosh Jagadeeshan

Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, Canada

Ushma Shah

Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, Canada

Debarti Chakrabarti

Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, Canada

Rama S. Singh

singh@mcmaster.ca

Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RSS SJ. Performed the experiments: US DC. Analyzed the data: US DC SJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RSS. Wrote the paper: SJ RSS.