About the Authors

Sakshi Puri

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, Texas, United States of America

Zen Faulkes

zfaulkes@utpa.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZF. Performed the experiments: SP. Analyzed the data: SP ZF. Wrote the paper: SP ZF.