About the Authors

Nidhi Sahni

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Song Yi

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Karla J. Daniels

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Thyagarajan Srikantha

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Claude Pujol

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

David R. Soll

david-soll@uiowa.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS SY KJD TS CP DRS. Performed the experiments: NS SY KJD. Analyzed the data: NS SY DRS. Wrote the paper: NS SY DRS.