About the Authors

Ianina Altshuler

altshuli@uwindsor.ca

Affiliation Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

James J. Vaillant

Affiliation Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Sen Xu

Affiliations Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Melania E. Cristescu

Affiliations Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IA MEC. Performed the experiments: IA JJV. Analyzed the data: IA JJV SX MEC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MEC. Wrote the paper: IA JJV SX.