About the Authors

Hao Xu

hao.xu@usm.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States of America

Matthew Grant Arnold

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States of America

Sushmitha Vijay Kumar

Current address: The Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HX. Performed the experiments: HX MGA SVK. Analyzed the data: HX MGA SVK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HX MGA SVK. Wrote the paper: HX MGA.