About the Authors

Samuel A. Smits

samsmits@gmail.com (SAS); cleber.ouverney@sjsu.edu (CCO)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, San José State University, San José, California, United States of America

Cleber C. Ouverney

samsmits@gmail.com (SAS); cleber.ouverney@sjsu.edu (CCO)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, San José State University, San José, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAS CCO. Performed the experiments: SAS. Analyzed the data: SAS CCO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CCO. Wrote the paper: SAS.