About the Authors

Matt Shipman

mshipman@chemistry.montana.edu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Kirk Lubick

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Molecular Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

David Fouchard

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Rajani Guram

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Paul Grieco

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Mark Jutila

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Molecular Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Edward A. Dratz

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Competing Interests

EAD and PG are founders and share holders in Zdye LLC that licenses patents issued to Montana State University for the Zdye detection reagents used in the present study. Zdye LLC provides research grants to Montana State University for development of Zdyes and related technology. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS KL MJ EAD. Performed the experiments: MS KL DF RG. Analyzed the data: MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KL DF RG MJ PG. Wrote the paper: MS KL MJ EAD.