About the Authors

Lauren F. Clancey

Affiliation School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, Washington, United States of America

Alisha J. Beirl

Affiliation School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, Washington, United States of America

Tor H. Linbo

Affiliation Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Cynthia D. Cooper

cdcooper@vancouver.wsu.edu

Affiliation School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that Melanoma Research Foundation partnered with Cosmopolitan Magazine to award them funds that partially support this work. Receipt of this award does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors do not have any other declarations in relationship to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products in association with Cosmopolitan Magazine.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LFC AJB CDC. Performed the experiments: LFC AJB THL CDC. Analyzed the data: LFC AJB THL CDC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: THL. Wrote the paper: LFC CDC. Reviewed the manuscript for content: LFC AJB THL CDC. Contributed to revision: LFC AJB THL CDC.