About the Authors

Apollo Stacy

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, John Ring LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX United States of America

Nader Abraham

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, John Ring LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX United States of America

Peter Jorth

Current address: Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, John Ring LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX United States of America

Marvin Whiteley

mwhiteley@austin.utexas.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, John Ring LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AS MW. Data curation: AS. Formal analysis: AS. Funding acquisition: AS MW. Investigation: AS NA PJ. Methodology: AS NA PJ MW. Project administration: MW. Resources: AS MW. Software: AS. Supervision: MW. Validation: AS MW. Visualization: AS. Writing – original draft: AS. Writing – review & editing: AS MW.