About the Authors

Premal Shah

pshah1@utk.edu

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Michael A. Gilchrist

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS MAG. Performed the experiments: PS. Analyzed the data: PS MAG. Wrote the paper: PS.