About the Authors

Bambarendage P. U. Perera

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803, United States of America

Ryoichi Teruyama

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803, United States of America

Joomyeong Kim

jkim@lsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JK BPUP. Performed the experiments: JK BPUP. Analyzed the data: JK BPUP RT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JK RT. Wrote the paper: JK BPUP RT.