About the Authors

Siddhartha Dutta

Current address: Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Howard J. Teresinski

Current address: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Affiliation Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Matthew D. Smith

msmith@wlu.ca

Affiliation Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD MDS. Performed the experiments: SD HJT. Analyzed the data: SD HJT MDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SD MDS. Wrote the paper: SD MDS.