About the Authors

Indira Paddibhatla

Affiliations Biology Department, The Graduate Center, The City College of the City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America, The Graduate Center, The City College of the City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Mark J. Lee

Affiliation Biology Department, The Graduate Center, The City College of the City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Marta E. Kalamarz

Contributed equally to this work with: Marta E. Kalamarz, Roberto Ferrarese

Affiliations Biology Department, The Graduate Center, The City College of the City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America, The Graduate Center, The City College of the City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Roberto Ferrarese

Contributed equally to this work with: Marta E. Kalamarz, Roberto Ferrarese

Affiliation Biology Department, The Graduate Center, The City College of the City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Shubha Govind

sgovind@ccny.cuny.edu

Affiliations Biology Department, The Graduate Center, The City College of the City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America, The Graduate Center, The City College of the City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IP MJL MEK RF SG. Performed the experiments: IP MJL MEK RF. Analyzed the data: IP MJL MEK RF SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG. Wrote the paper: IP MJL MEK RF SG.