About the Authors

Austin L. Zuckerman

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Formal analysis

Current Address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States.

Affiliations Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Joint Doctoral Program in Mathematics and Science Education, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America, Joint Doctoral Program in Mathematics and Science Education, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Gregory J. Stocker

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Cheyenne N. Mercer

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Randy G. Tsai

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Thomas J. Bussey

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Joint Doctoral Program in Mathematics and Science Education, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Stanley M. Lo

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

smlo@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Joint Doctoral Program in Mathematics and Science Education, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Research Ethics Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.