About the Authors

Michael Povelones

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Povelones, Lavanya Bhagavatula, Hassan Yassine

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Lavanya Bhagavatula

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Povelones, Lavanya Bhagavatula, Hassan Yassine

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Hassan Yassine

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Povelones, Lavanya Bhagavatula, Hassan Yassine

Affiliation Department of Biology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Lee Aun Tan

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Leanna M. Upton

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Mike A. Osta

Affiliation Department of Biology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

George K. Christophides

g.christophides@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MP LB HY LAT GKC. Performed the experiments: MP LB HY LAT LMU. Analyzed the data: MP LB HY LAT LMU MAO GKC. Wrote the paper: MP MAO GKC.