About the Authors

Shelby Calkins

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, United States of America

Noha H. Youssef

noha@okstate.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SC NY. Formal analysis: SC NY. Funding acquisition: NY. Investigation: SC. Methodology: SC NY. Project administration: NY. Resources: NY. Supervision: NY. Visualization: SC NY. Writing – original draft: SC NY. Writing – review & editing: SC NY.