About the Authors

David J. Winter

djwinter@asu.edu (DJW); Ananias.Escalante@temple.edu (AAE)

Affiliation The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

M. Andreína Pacheco

Affiliations The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine (igem), Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Andres F. Vallejo

Affiliation Caucaseco Scientific Research Center, Cali, Colombia

Rachel S. Schwartz

Affiliation The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Myriam Arevalo-Herrera

Affiliations Caucaseco Scientific Research Center, Cali, Colombia, Faculty of Health, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

Socrates Herrera

Affiliation Caucaseco Scientific Research Center, Cali, Colombia

Reed A. Cartwright

Contributed equally to this work with: Reed A. Cartwright, Ananias A. Escalante

Affiliations The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, The School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Ananias A. Escalante

Contributed equally to this work with: Reed A. Cartwright, Ananias A. Escalante

djwinter@asu.edu (DJW); Ananias.Escalante@temple.edu (AAE)

Affiliations The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine (igem), Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AAE SH MAP RAC MAH. Performed the experiments: AFV MAH MAP. Analyzed the data: DJW RSS MAH. Wrote the paper: DJW MAP AFV RSS MAH SH RAC AAE.