About the Authors

Betsy Von Holle

vonholle@mail.ucf.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Yun Wei

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

David Nickerson

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BVH. Performed the experiments: BVH. Analyzed the data: BVH YW DMN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BVH YW DMN. Wrote the paper: BVH.