About the Authors

An Ye

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Hongzhi He

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Joomyeong Kim

jkim@lsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AY HH JK. Performed the experiments: AY HH. Analyzed the data: AY HH JK. Wrote the paper: AY JK.