About the Authors

Mary Higby Schweitzer

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Higby Schweitzer, Alison E. Moyer, Wenxia Zheng

schweitzer@ncsu.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Alison E. Moyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Higby Schweitzer, Alison E. Moyer, Wenxia Zheng

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Wenxia Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Higby Schweitzer, Alison E. Moyer, Wenxia Zheng

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MHS AEM WZ. Performed the experiments: AEM WZ. Analyzed the data: MHS AEM WZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHS. Wrote the paper: MHS AEM WZ.