About the Authors

Changyun Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Changyun Hu, Rita V. M. Rio

Current address: Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Rita V. M. Rio

Contributed equally to this work with: Changyun Hu, Rita V. M. Rio

Current address: Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jan Medlock

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Lee R. Haines

Current address: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Petch Building, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Dana Nayduch

Current address: Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Amy F. Savage

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Nurper Guz

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Geoffrey M. Attardo

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Terry W. Pearson

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Petch Building, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Alison P. Galvani

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Serap Aksoy

serap.aksoy@yale.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RR SA. Performed the experiments: CH RR LH DN AS NG GA TP SA. Analyzed the data: CH RR JM LH DN AS NG GA TP AG SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TP SA. Wrote the paper: CH RR JM LH TP AG SA.