About the Authors

Paulina J. Villanueva

Roles Investigation

Affiliation The Cytometry, Screening and Imaging Core Facility & Border Biomedical Research Center & Department of Biological Sciences, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Alberto Martinez

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Chemistry Department, New York City College of Technology, The City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Sarah T. Baca

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation The Cytometry, Screening and Imaging Core Facility & Border Biomedical Research Center & Department of Biological Sciences, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Rebecca E. DeJesus

Roles Investigation

Affiliation The Cytometry, Screening and Imaging Core Facility & Border Biomedical Research Center & Department of Biological Sciences, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Manuel Larragoity

Roles Investigation

Affiliation The Cytometry, Screening and Imaging Core Facility & Border Biomedical Research Center & Department of Biological Sciences, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Lisett Contreras

Roles Investigation

Affiliation The Cytometry, Screening and Imaging Core Facility & Border Biomedical Research Center & Department of Biological Sciences, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Denisse A. Gutierrez

Roles Investigation

Affiliation The Cytometry, Screening and Imaging Core Facility & Border Biomedical Research Center & Department of Biological Sciences, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Armando Varela-Ramirez

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Cytometry, Screening and Imaging Core Facility & Border Biomedical Research Center & Department of Biological Sciences, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Renato J. Aguilera

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

raguilera@utep.edu

Affiliation The Cytometry, Screening and Imaging Core Facility & Border Biomedical Research Center & Department of Biological Sciences, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.