About the Authors

N. Wade Hubbs

Contributed equally to this work with: N. Wade Hubbs, Carla R. Hurt

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Biology, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Carla R. Hurt

Contributed equally to this work with: N. Wade Hubbs, Carla R. Hurt

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

churt@tntech.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, United States of America

John Niedzwiecki

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Belmont University, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Brian Leckie

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biology, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, United States of America

David Withers

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no competing interests.