About the Authors

Nikolai L. Chepelev

Affiliation Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Joshua D. Bennitz

Affiliation Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ting Huang

Affiliation Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Skye McBride

Affiliation Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

William G. Willmore

Bill_Willmore@carleton.ca

Affiliations Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NLC WGW. Performed the experiments: NLC JDB TH SM. Analyzed the data: NLC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WGW. Wrote the paper: NLC WGW.