About the Authors

Murat C. Kalem

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus, Duluth, Minnesota, United States of America

Evgeny S. Gerasimov

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Pamela K. Vu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota, United States of America

Sara L. Zimmer

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

szimmer3@d.umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus, Duluth, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.