About the Authors

Waqas Nasir Chaudhry

Affiliations National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan, Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jeniffer Concepción-Acevedo

Affiliation Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Taehyun Park

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Saadia Andleeb

Affiliation National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

James J. Bull

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Bruce R. Levin

blevin@emory.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: WNC JCA JJB BRL. Formal analysis: WNC JJB BRL TP. Funding acquisition: BRL JJB. Investigation: WNC JCA JJB BRL TP. Methodology: WNC JCA JJB BRL TP. Project administration: BRL JJB. Supervision: JJB BRL SA. Validation: WNC JCA JJB SA BRL. Visualization: WNC JJB BRL. Writing – original draft: WNC JJB JCA BRL. Writing – review & editing: WNC JJB JCA BRL.