About the Authors

Sean B. Cleveland

sean.b.cleveland@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and the Center for Computational Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

John Davies

Affiliation Molecular and Cellular Toxicology Section, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Marcella A. McClure

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and the Center for Computational Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SBC MAM. Performed the experiments: SBC JD MAM. Analyzed the data: SBC MAM. Wrote the paper: SBC JD MAM.