About the Authors

Bambarendage P. U. Perera

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Joomyeong Kim

jkim@lsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JK BPUP. Formal analysis: BPUP. Funding acquisition: JK. Investigation: BPUP. Methodology: JK BPUP. Project administration: JK BPUP. Resources: JK. Supervision: JK BPUP. Validation: JK BPUP. Writing – original draft: JK BPUP. Writing – review & editing: JK BPUP.