About the Authors

Frederick D. Dooley

fdd@u.washington.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Suven P. Nair

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Peter D. Ward

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FDD PDW. Performed the experiments: FDD SPN. Analyzed the data: FDD PDW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PDW. Wrote the paper: FDD SPN PDW.