About the Authors

Xiang Jia Min

Affiliation Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Donal A. Hickey

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dhickey@alcor.concordia.ca

Affiliation Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DH XM. Performed the experiments: XM. Analyzed the data: XM. Wrote the paper: DH XM.