About the Authors

Mausumi Basu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Sean C. Courtney

Affiliation Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Margo A. Brinton

mbrinton@gsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exit.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SCC MB MAB. Data curation: MB SCC. Formal analysis: MB SCC. Funding acquisition: MAB SCC. Investigation: MB SCC. Methodology: MB MAB SCC. Project administration: MAB. Resources: MAB MB SCC. Supervision: MAB. Validation: MAB MB SCC. Visualization: MAB MB SCC. Writing – original draft: MB MAB. Writing – review & editing: MAB MB SCC.