About the Authors

Wei-Siang Liau

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, United States of America

Ubaydah Nasri

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, United States of America

Daniel Elmatari

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, United States of America

Jason Rothman

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, United States of America

Craig W. LaMunyon

cwlamunyon@csupomona.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: W-SL UN DE JR CWL. Performed the experiments: W-SL UN DE JR CWL. Analyzed the data: W-SL UN DE JR CWL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CWL. Wrote the paper: W-SL UN DE JR CWL.