About the Authors

Song Yi

Contributed equally to this work with: Song Yi, Nidhi Sahni, Karla J. Daniels, Kevin L. Lu

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

Nidhi Sahni

Contributed equally to this work with: Song Yi, Nidhi Sahni, Karla J. Daniels, Kevin L. Lu

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

Karla J. Daniels

Contributed equally to this work with: Song Yi, Nidhi Sahni, Karla J. Daniels, Kevin L. Lu

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

Kevin L. Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Song Yi, Nidhi Sahni, Karla J. Daniels, Kevin L. Lu

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

Guanghua Huang

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

Adam M. Garnaas

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

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: SY NS KJD DRS. Performed the experiments: SY NS KJD KLL GH TS AMG. Analyzed the data: SY NS KJD DRS. Wrote the paper: SY NS KJD DRS.