About the Authors

Jana N. Radin

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Jessica L. Kelliher

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Paola K. Párraga Solórzano

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Departmento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Sangolquí, Ecuador

Thomas E. Kehl-Fie

kehlfie@illinois.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JNR TEKF. Funding acquisition: TEKF. Investigation: JNR JLK PKPS TEKF. Writing – original draft: JNR TEKF. Writing – review & editing: JNR TEKF.