About the Authors

Yoni Gavish

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoni Gavish, Hadar Kedem

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Hadar Kedem

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoni Gavish, Hadar Kedem

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Irit Messika

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Carmit Cohen

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Evelyn Toh

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States of America

Daniel Munro

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States of America

Qunfeng Dong

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States of America, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States of America

Clay Fuqua

Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States of America

Keith Clay

Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States of America

Hadas Hawlena

hadashaw@bgu.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Competing Interests

Note that Qunfeng Dong, who is a co-author on the paper, is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member, but this does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH HK IM KC CF. Performed the experiments: HK IM CC ET. Analyzed the data: YG HH HK QD DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CF QD HH. Wrote the paper: YG HK HH KC ET DM.