About the Authors

Jeffery P. Demuth

jpdemuth@uta.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, Texas United States of America

Amrita Naidu

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, Texas United States of America

Laura D. Mydlarz

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, Texas United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPD AN LDM. Performed the experiments: AN. Analyzed the data: JPD AN LDM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JPD LDM. Wrote the paper: JPD AN.