About the Authors

Om P. Rajora

Contributed equally to this work with: Om P. Rajora, Andrew J. Eckert

Om.Rajora@unb.ca

Affiliation Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Andrew J. Eckert

Contributed equally to this work with: Om P. Rajora, Andrew J. Eckert

Affiliation Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

John W. R. Zinck

Current address: Athletigen Technologies Inc., Kanata, Ontario, Canada

Affiliation Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. The current affiliation of Dr. John W. R. Zinck is with Athletigen Technologies Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OPR JWRZ. Performed the experiments: JWRZ. Analyzed the data: AJE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OPR. Wrote the paper: OPR AJE.