About the Authors

Troy G. Hammerstrom

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kathryn Beabout

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Thomas P. Clements

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Gerda Saxer

Current Address: Experimental Station, DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yousif Shamoo

shamoo@rice.edu

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TGH GS YS. Performed the experiments: TGH KB TPC. Analyzed the data: TGH GS YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GS YS. Wrote the paper: TGH YS.