About the Authors

Tuan M. Nguyen

Contributed equally to this work with: Tuan M. Nguyen, Dipti Ravindra, Brian Kwong, Sana Waheed

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, United States of America

Dipti Ravindra

Contributed equally to this work with: Tuan M. Nguyen, Dipti Ravindra, Brian Kwong, Sana Waheed

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, United States of America

Brian Kwong

Contributed equally to this work with: Tuan M. Nguyen, Dipti Ravindra, Brian Kwong, Sana Waheed

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, United States of America

Sana Waheed

Contributed equally to this work with: Tuan M. Nguyen, Dipti Ravindra, Brian Kwong, Sana Waheed

Current address: BD Biosciences, San Jose, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, United States of America

Ryan Ferguson

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, United States of America

Nicole Tarlton

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, United States of America

Victoria Wu

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, United States of America

Christopher S. Sequeira

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, United States of America

Martina Bremer

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, United States of America

Tzvia Abramson

tzvia.abramson@sjsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TN DR BK SW TA MB. Performed the experiments: TN DR BW SW NT RF VW CS. Analyzed the data: TN DR MB TA. Wrote the paper: TN DR TA.