About the Authors

Meredith J. Ezak

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Denise M. Ferkey

dmferkey@buffalo.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ME DF. Performed the experiments: ME DF. Analyzed the data: ME DF. Wrote the paper: ME DF.