About the Authors

Xiaomeng Xu

xuxiao@isu.edu

Affiliation Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America

Arthur Aron

Affiliation Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

J. Lee Westmaas

Affiliation American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jin Wang

Affiliation Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Lawrence H. Sweet

Affiliation University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Xu has been funded by the NIH. Dr. Aron has been funded by the NSF, the Templeton Foundation, and the Fetzer Institute. Dr. Westmaas has been funded by the American Cancer Society. Dr. Wang declares no potential conflict of interest. Dr. Sweet has been funded by the NIH. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XX AA JLW. Performed the experiments: XX AA. Analyzed the data: XX LHS JW AA. Wrote the paper: XX JLW AA LHS JW.