About the Authors

Aishwarya Swaminathan

Contributed equally to this work with: Aishwarya Swaminathan, Valerie L. Barnes

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Valerie L. Barnes

Contributed equally to this work with: Aishwarya Swaminathan, Valerie L. Barnes

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Stephanie Fox

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Sarah Gammouh

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Lori A. Pile

loripile@wayne.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS VLB LAP. Performed the experiments: AS VLB SF SG. Analyzed the data: AS VLB SF SG LAP. Wrote the paper: AS VLB LAP.