About the Authors

Holly L. Nichols

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Elliott B. Goldstein

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Omid Saleh Ziabari

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Benjamin J. Parker

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bjp@utk.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.