About the Authors

Ning Pan

ning-pan@uiowa.edu (NP); bernd-fritzsch@uiowa.edu (BF)

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Israt Jahan

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Jennifer Kersigo

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Jeremy S. Duncan

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Benjamin Kopecky

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Bernd Fritzsch

ning-pan@uiowa.edu (NP); bernd-fritzsch@uiowa.edu (BF)

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NP IJ BF. Performed the experiments: NP IJ JK JD BK BF. Analyzed the data: NP IJ JK JD BK BF. Wrote the paper: NP BF.