About the Authors

Som B. Ale

sale1@uic.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Joel S. Brown

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Amy T. Sullivan

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SBA JSB ATS. Performed the experiments: SBA JSB ATS. Analyzed the data: SBA JSB ATS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SBA JSB ATS. Wrote the paper: SBA JSB ATS. Equal contributions in conceiving and writing the paper: SBA JSB ATS.