About the Authors

Sheila K. Pirooznia
Jessica Sarthi

Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica Sarthi, Ashley A. Johnson, Meridith S. Toth

Ashley A. Johnson

Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica Sarthi, Ashley A. Johnson, Meridith S. Toth

Meridith S. Toth

Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica Sarthi, Ashley A. Johnson, Meridith S. Toth

Kellie Chiu
Sravanthi Koduri
Felice Elefant

fe22@drexel.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FE SKP MST. Performed the experiments: SKP MST KC SK. Analyzed the data: SKP FE MST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SKP MST JS AAJ. Wrote the paper: SKP FE SP.