About the Authors

Josif Stakic

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jessica M. Suchanek

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Geoffrey P. Ziegler

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Edwin R. Griff

edwin.griff@uc.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ERG. Performed the experiments: JS JMS GPZ ERG. Analyzed the data: JS JMS GPZ ERG. Wrote the paper: JS ERG.