About the Authors

Spencer V. Nyholm

spencer.nyholm@uconn.edu (SVN); pgirguis@oeb.harvard.edu (PRG)

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Pengfei Song

Current address: Institute for Core Studies, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeanne Dang

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Corey Bunce

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Peter R. Girguis

spencer.nyholm@uconn.edu (SVN); pgirguis@oeb.harvard.edu (PRG)

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SVN PS PRG. Performed the experiments: SVN PS JD CB PRG. Analyzed the data: SVN PS JD CB PRG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SVN PRG. Wrote the paper: SVN PS JD CB PRG.