About the Authors

Fen Pei

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The University of Arizona, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Susanne DiSalvo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Department of Biological Sciences, Edwardsville, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Brown University, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Suzanne S. Sindi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ssindi@ucmerced.edu (SS); tserio@umass.edu (TRS)

Affiliation University of California, Merced, Applied Mathematics, School of Natural Sciences, Merced, California, United States of America

Tricia R. Serio

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ssindi@ucmerced.edu (SS); tserio@umass.edu (TRS)

Current address: The University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation The University of Arizona, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.