About the Authors

Nancy E. Breen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Physics, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, United States of America

Julie Lowenstein

Contributed equally to this work with: Julie Lowenstein, Rebecca Metivier

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biology, Marine Biology and Environmental Science, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, United States of America

Rebecca Metivier

Contributed equally to this work with: Julie Lowenstein, Rebecca Metivier

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Physics, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, United States of America, Department of Biology, Marine Biology and Environmental Science, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, United States of America

Lawrence Andrade

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dominion Diagnostics, North Kingstown, RI, United States of America

Andrew L. Rhyne

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

arhyne@rwu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Marine Biology and Environmental Science, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: The funder Dominion Diagnostics provided support in the form of a salary for LA, who is an employee.This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.