About the Authors

Eric K. Lund

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric K. Lund, Patrick M. O’Connor, Mark A. Loewen, Zubair A. Jinnah

lunde@ohio.edu

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Athens, Ohio, United States of America, Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Patrick M. O’Connor

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric K. Lund, Patrick M. O’Connor, Mark A. Loewen, Zubair A. Jinnah

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Athens, Ohio, United States of America, Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Mark A. Loewen

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric K. Lund, Patrick M. O’Connor, Mark A. Loewen, Zubair A. Jinnah

Affiliations Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Zubair A. Jinnah

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric K. Lund, Patrick M. O’Connor, Mark A. Loewen, Zubair A. Jinnah

Affiliation School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EKL PMO MAL ZAJ. Performed the experiments: EKL PMO MAL ZAJ. Analyzed the data: EKL PMO MAL ZAJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EKL PMO MAL ZAJ. Wrote the paper: EKL PMO MAL ZAJ.