About the Authors

Karina Y. Degaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Karina Y. Degaki, Zhilin Chen

Affiliations Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Biology, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

Zhilin Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Karina Y. Degaki, Zhilin Chen

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Aureo T. Yamada

Affiliation Institute for Biology, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

B. Anne Croy

croya@queensu.ca

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC ZC KYD ATY. Performed the experiments: ZC KYD. Analyzed the data: AC ZC KYD ATY. Wrote the paper: AC ZC KYD ATY.