About the Authors

Jenna R. Brown

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, 28262, United States of America

Dennis R. Livesay

drlivesa@uncc.edu

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, 28262, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DRL. Performed the experiments: JRB. Analyzed the data: JRB DRL. Wrote the paper: DRL.