About the Authors

Fatu Badiane Markey

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

William Ruezinsky

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Sanjay Tyagi

Affiliation Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Mona Batish

batishmo@njms.rutgers.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

Rutgers University receives royalties from the sale of prelabeld single-molecule FISH probes by Biosearch Technologies Inc., which markets them as Stellaris probes. A fraction of these proceeds is distributed to Sanjay Tyagi's laboratory for research and to him personally. This does not affect the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on data sharing and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB ST. Performed the experiments: MB FBM WR. Analyzed the data: MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB ST. Wrote the paper: MB ST.