About the Authors

Devaki Bapat

Contributed equally to this work with: Devaki Bapat, Ximei Huang

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Ximei Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Devaki Bapat, Ximei Huang

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Karthigayan Gunalan

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Peter R. Preiser

prpreiser@ntu.edu.sg

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DB XH PRP. Performed the experiments: DB XH KG. Analyzed the data: DB XH PRP. Wrote the paper: DB XH PRP.