About the Authors

Harinath Bahudhanapati

Contributed equally to this work with: Harinath Bahudhanapati, Shashwati Bhattacharya

Affiliation Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States of America

Shashwati Bhattacharya

Contributed equally to this work with: Harinath Bahudhanapati, Shashwati Bhattacharya

Affiliation Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States of America

Shuo Wei

Shuo.Wei@mail.wvu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SW. Performed the experiments: HB SB. Analyzed the data: SW HB SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW HB SB. Wrote the paper: SW HB SB.