About the Authors

Stefan Rentas

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Reza Saberianfar

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Charnpal Grewal

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Rachelle Kanippayoor

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Mithilesh Mishra

Affiliation Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, The National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Dannel McCollum

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jim Karagiannis

jkaragia@uwo.ca

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JK. Performed the experiments: SR RS CG RK MM JK. Analyzed the data: SR JK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM. Wrote the paper: SR JK.