About the Authors

Maria Apostolopoulou

Affiliation Department of Biology and Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

Lee Ligon

ligonl@rpi.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology and Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA LAL. Performed the experiments: MA LAL. Analyzed the data: MA LAL. Wrote the paper: MA LAL.