About the Authors

Yue Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Sean M. Vargas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Trever C. Smith II

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Sai Lakshmi Rajasekhar Karna

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation

Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Taylor MacMackin Ingle

Roles Methodology

Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Karen L. Wozniak

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics; Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Floyd L. Wormley Jr.

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Biology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Janakiram Seshu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

j.seshu@utsa.edu

Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.