About the Authors

Marina L. Ritchie

marina.ritchie@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Tamara N. Romanuk

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLR TNR. Performed the experiments: MLR. Analyzed the data: MLR TNR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLR. Wrote the paper: MLR.