About the Authors

Georgeta Crivat

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Vladimir A. Lizunov

Affiliation Program in Physical Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Caroline R. Li

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Karin G. Stenkula

Current address: Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Affiliation Experimental Diabetes, Metabolism, and Nutrition Section, Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Obesity Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Joshua Zimmerberg

Affiliation Program in Physical Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Samuel W. Cushman

Affiliation Experimental Diabetes, Metabolism, and Nutrition Section, Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Obesity Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Leslie Pick

lpick@umd.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LP SWC. Performed the experiments: GC VAL CRL KS. Analyzed the data: GC VAL KS JZ SWC LP. Wrote the paper: GC VAL CRL SWC LP.