About the Authors

Giridhar Athrey

giri.athrey@tamu.edu

Affiliations Department of Poultry Science, Texas A&M University, 2472 TAMU, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Faculty of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, P.O. Box 42451, Lafayette, LA, United States of America

Richard F. Lance

Affiliation Environmental Laboratory, USACE, Vicksburg, MS, United States of America

Paul L. Leberg

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, P.O. Box 42451, Lafayette, LA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GA RFL PLL. Performed the experiments: GA PLL. Analyzed the data: GA RFL PLL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RFL PLL. Wrote the paper: GA RFL PLL.