About the Authors

Ben Pearre

bwpearre@bu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

L. Nathan Perkins

Affiliation Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey E. Markowitz

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Timothy J. Gardner

Affiliation Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BP TJG. Data curation: BP LNP JEM. Formal analysis: BP LNP JEM. Funding acquisition: TJG. Investigation: BP LNP. Methodology: BP LNP JEM TJG. Project administration: BP TJG. Resources: TJG. Software: BP LNP JEM. Supervision: TJG. Validation: BP LNP. Visualization: BP LNP. Writing – original draft: BP. Writing – review & editing: BP LNP.