About the Authors

Yong Ping

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong Ping, Girma Waro

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Girma Waro

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong Ping, Girma Waro

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Ashley Licursi

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Sarah Smith

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Dai-An Vo-Ba

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Susan Tsunoda

susan.tsunoda@colostate.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST YP GW. Performed the experiments: YP GW AL SS DV ST. Analyzed the data: YP ST AL DV SS GW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ST. Wrote the paper: ST. Critical reading of manuscript: YP.