About the Authors

Lisa R. Keyes

Current address: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Graduate Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Danna Hargett

Affiliation Lewis Thomas Laboratory, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Melisa Soland

Current address: Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Graduate Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Mariana G. Bego

Current address: Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Graduate Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Cyprian C. Rossetto

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Graduate Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Graca Almeida-Porada

Current address: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Graduate Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Stephen St. Jeor

stjeor@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Graduate Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LRK DH. Performed the experiments: LRK MS. Analyzed the data: LRK MS DH MGB GA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LRK GA SSJ. Wrote the paper: LRK MS DH MGB. Ran the southern blots: CCR.