About the Authors

James M. Daubenspeck

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

David S. Jordan

Current address: Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Warren Simmons

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Matthew B. Renfrow

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Kevin Dybvig

dybvig@uab.edu

Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMD DSJ KD. Performed the experiments: JMD DSJ. Analyzed the data: JMD MBR WS KD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MBR KD. Wrote the paper: JMD KD.