About the Authors

Noha H. Youssef

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

M. B. Couger

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Mostafa S. Elshahed

Mostafa@Okstate.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NHY MSE. Performed the experiments: NHY. Analyzed the data: NHY MC MSE. Wrote the paper: NHY MSE.