About the Authors

Rahil Taujale

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States of America

Yanbin Yin

yyin@niu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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