About the Authors

Sirinart Techa

Affiliation Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, 701 E. Pratt Street, Columbus Center, Baltimore, Maryland, 21202, United States of America

J. Sook Chung

chung@umces.edu

Affiliation Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, 701 E. Pratt Street, Columbus Center, Baltimore, Maryland, 21202, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST JSC. Performed the experiments: ST JSC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ST JSC. Wrote the paper: ST JSC.