About the Authors

Jin Duan

jduan@uwaterloo.ca

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Wei Jiang

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Zhenyu Cheng

Current address: Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

John J. Heikkila

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Bernard R. Glick

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Edited the manuscript: BRG JJH ZC. Conceived and designed the experiments: JD BRG JJH. Performed the experiments: JD WJ ZC. Analyzed the data: JD WJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JD JJH BRG. Wrote the paper: JD.