About the Authors

Victor Santos

santosv@stjohns.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, United States of America

Irvin Hirshfield

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VS IH. Performed the experiments: VS IH. Analyzed the data: VS IH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IH VS. Wrote the paper: VS IH.