About the Authors

Senait D. Senay

senait.senay@lincolnuni.ac.nz

Affiliation Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand

Susan P. Worner

Affiliation Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand

Takayoshi Ikeda

Affiliation University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS SW TI. Performed the experiments: SS TI. Analyzed the data: SS SW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS SW TI. Wrote the paper: SS SW TI. Collated data used in analysis: SS SW TI.