About the Authors

Veronika Michalkova

Contributed equally to this work with: Veronika Michalkova, Joshua B. Benoit

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United State of America, Section of Molecular and Applied Zoology, Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

Joshua B. Benoit

Contributed equally to this work with: Veronika Michalkova, Joshua B. Benoit

joshua.benoit@uc.edu

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United State of America

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United State of America

Geoffrey M. Attardo

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United State of America

Jan Medlock

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Serap Aksoy

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United State of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VM JBB GMA JM SA. Performed the experiments: VM JBB. Analyzed the data: VM JBB GMA JM SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VM JBB GMA JM SA. Wrote the paper: VM JBB GMA JM SA.