About the Authors

Mitchell B. Baker

Contributed equally to this work with: Mitchell B. Baker, P. Dilip Venugopal

Affiliation Biology Department, Queens College of The City University of New York, 65–30 Kissena Boulevard, Flushing, New York, 11367, United States of America

P. Dilip Venugopal

Contributed equally to this work with: Mitchell B. Baker, P. Dilip Venugopal

dilip@umd.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, 4112 Plant Sciences Building, College Park, Maryland, 20742, United States of America

William O. Lamp

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, 4112 Plant Sciences Building, College Park, Maryland, 20742, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MBB PDV WOL. Performed the experiments: MBB PDV. Analyzed the data: PDV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MBB PDV. Wrote the paper: MBB PDV WOL.