About the Authors

Dina R. Assali

Contributed equally to this work with: Dina R. Assali, Cynthia T. Hsu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Pomona, CA, United States of America

Cynthia T. Hsu

Contributed equally to this work with: Dina R. Assali, Cynthia T. Hsu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States of America

Keith M. Gunapala

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States of America

Antonio Aguayo

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Pomona, CA, United States of America

Michael McBurney

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Andrew D. Steele

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

adsteele@cpp.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Pomona, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.