About the Authors

Shomen Mukherjee

shomenm@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, North Miami, Florida, United States of America, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban, South Africa

Michael R. Heithaus

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, North Miami, Florida, United States of America

Joel C. Trexler

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, North Miami, Florida, United States of America

Jayanti Ray-Mukherjee

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, North Miami, Florida, United States of America, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban, South Africa

Jeremy Vaudo

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, North Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM MH JT. Performed the experiments: SM JRM JV. Analyzed the data: SM JRM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JT MH. Wrote the paper: SM. Critical comments on the manuscript: MH JT JRM.