About the Authors

Melissa Da Silva

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Chris Upton

cupton@uvic.ca

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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