About the Authors

Samanthe M. Lyons

Contributed equally to this work with: Samanthe M. Lyons, Wenlong Xu

Affiliation School of Biomedical Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Wenlong Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Samanthe M. Lyons, Wenlong Xu

Affiliation Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

June Medford

Affiliation Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Ashok Prasad

ashokp@engr.colostate.edu

Affiliations School of Biomedical Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America, Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JM AP. Performed the experiments: SML WX AP. Analyzed the data: SML WX AP. Wrote the paper: SML WX JM AP.