About the Authors

Melha Mellata

Affiliation The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Jeffrey W. Touchman

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Roy Curtiss III

rcurtiss@asu.edu

Affiliations The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM RC. Performed the experiments: MM. Analyzed the data: MM JWT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JWT RC. Wrote the paper: MM. Carefully reviewed the manuscript: RC JWT.