About the Authors

Lisa L. Drake

Affiliation Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

Dmitri Y. Boudko

Affiliation Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Osvaldo Marinotti

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Victoria K. Carpenter

Affiliation Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

Angus L. Dawe

Affiliations Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America, Molecular Biology Program, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

Immo A. Hansen

immoh@nmsu.edu

Affiliations Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America, Institute of Applied Biosciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America, Molecular Biology Program, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IAH DYB OM. Performed the experiments: LLD VKC DYB OM. Analyzed the data: IAH LLD DYB OM ALD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DYB OM ALD IAH. Wrote the paper: LLD IAH.