About the Authors

Marguerite E. Hunt

Affiliation Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Michael P. Scherrer

Affiliation Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Frank D. Ferrari

Affiliation Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Suitland, Maryland, United States of America

Mikhail V. Matz

matz@mail.utexas.edu

Affiliation Section of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MVM. Performed the experiments: MEH MPS. Analyzed the data: MEH. Wrote the paper: MEH MVM. Identified the source organism: FDF.