About the Authors

Shingo Kihira

Contributed equally to this work with: Shingo Kihira, Eun Jeong Yu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America

Eun Jeong Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Shingo Kihira, Eun Jeong Yu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America

Jessica Cunningham

Affiliation Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America

Erin J. Cram

Affiliation Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Myeongwoo Lee

myeongwoo_lee@baylor.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML. Performed the experiments: SK EJY JC EC. Analyzed the data: SK EJY EC ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EC ML. Wrote the paper: SK EJY EC ML.