About the Authors

Aaron M. Collier

Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron M. Collier, Outi L. Lyytinen

Affiliation Department of BioSciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Outi L. Lyytinen

Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron M. Collier, Outi L. Lyytinen

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Yusong R. Guo

Affiliation Department of BioSciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yukimatsu Toh

Affiliation Department of BioSciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Minna M. Poranen

ytao@Rice.edu (YJT); minna.poranen@helsinki.fi (MMP)

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Yizhi J. Tao

ytao@Rice.edu (YJT); minna.poranen@helsinki.fi (MMP)

Affiliation Department of BioSciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMC OLL MMP YJT. Performed the experiments: AMC OLL. Analyzed the data: AMC OLL YRG YT MMP YJT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OLL YJT. Wrote the paper: AMC OLL YRG MMP YJT.