About the Authors

Nicholas J. Bongio

Current address: Department of Biology, Shenandoah University, Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

David J. Lampe

lampe@duq.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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