About the Authors

Hassan Yassine

Contributed equally to this work with: Hassan Yassine, Layla Kamareddine

Affiliation Department of Biology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Layla Kamareddine

Contributed equally to this work with: Hassan Yassine, Layla Kamareddine

Affiliation Department of Biology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Mike A. Osta

mo07@aub.edu.lb

Affiliation Department of Biology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HY LK MAO. Performed the experiments: HY LK. Analyzed the data: HY LK MAO. Wrote the paper: MAO.