About the Authors

Isaac T. Sluder

Contributed equally to this work with: Isaac T. Sluder, Nitika

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States of America

Nitika

Contributed equally to this work with: Isaac T. Sluder, Nitika

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States of America

Laura E. Knighton

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States of America

Andrew W. Truman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

atruman1@uncc.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.