About the Authors
- Tiffanie Ramos
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¶‡ TR and BS contributed equally to this work. SD, JAS, and JAG also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Sandra Dedesko
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¶‡ TR and BS contributed equally to this work. SD, JAS, and JAG also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Jeffrey A. Siegel
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¶‡ TR and BS contributed equally to this work. SD, JAS, and JAG also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Jack A. Gilbert
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¶‡ TR and BS contributed equally to this work. SD, JAS, and JAG also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliations Argonne National Laboratory, Institute for Genomic and Systems Biology, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Brent Stephens
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* E-mail: brent@iit.edu
¶‡ TR and BS contributed equally to this work. SD, JAS, and JAG also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Competing Interests
Co-author Jack A Gilbert is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. However, this does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JAS BS JAG TR. Performed the experiments: TR BS. Analyzed the data: TR BS SD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BS JAS JAG. Wrote the paper: TR BS JAS JAG SD. Acquisition of data: TR BS.