About the Authors

Kelly M. Hennessey

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Tess R. Smith

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Disease (CERID), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jennifer W. Xu

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Germain C. M. Alas

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kayode K. Ojo

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Disease (CERID), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ethan A. Merritt

aparedez@uw.edu (ARP); merritt@u.washington.edu (EAM)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Alexander R. Paredez

aparedez@uw.edu (ARP); merritt@u.washington.edu (EAM)

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ARP EAM. Formal analysis: ARP EAM KKO KMH. Funding acquisition: ARP KMH. Investigation: KMH TRS JWX GCMA. Methodology: ARP KKO. Project administration: ARP EAM. Supervision: ARP EAM KKO. Validation: ARP EAM. Visualization: KMH EAM GCMA KKO ARP. Writing – original draft: KMH EAM ARP. Writing – review & editing: KMH EAM ARP.