About the Authors

Lijing Bu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology and Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America

Richard M. Cripps

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

rcripps@sdsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.