About the Authors

Eva Boon

Contributed equally to this work with: Eva Boon, Erin Zimmerman

Current address: Department of Biology and Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Affiliation Institut de recherche en biologie végétale, Département de sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Erin Zimmerman

Contributed equally to this work with: Eva Boon, Erin Zimmerman

Affiliation Institut de recherche en biologie végétale, Département de sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Marc St-Arnaud

marc.st-arnaud@umontreal.ca (MS); mohamed.hijri@umontreal (MH)

Affiliation Institut de recherche en biologie végétale, Département de sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Mohamed Hijri

marc.st-arnaud@umontreal.ca (MS); mohamed.hijri@umontreal (MH)

Affiliation Institut de recherche en biologie végétale, Département de sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EB EZ MS MH. Performed the experiments: EZ EB. Analyzed the data: EB EZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS MH. Wrote the manuscript: EZ EB MS MH. Supervised the study: MS MH.