About the Authors

Shokouh Makvandi-Nejad

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Gabriel E. Hoffman

Affiliation Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Jeremy J. Allen

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Erin Chu

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Esther Gu

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Alyssa M. Chandler

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Ariel I. Loredo

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Biology Department, La Sierra University, Riverside, California, United States of America

Rebecca R. Bellone

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Jason G. Mezey

Affiliation Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Samantha A. Brooks

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Nathan B. Sutter

nbs39@cornell.edu

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM GH JM SB NS. Performed the experiments: SM GH JA EC EG AC AL JM NS. Analyzed the data: SM GH JA AC AL RB JM SB NS. Wrote the paper: GH RB JM SB NS.