About the Authors

Katherine C. H. Amrine

Affiliation Program in Quantitative and Systems Biology, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

Wesley D. Swingley

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States of America.

Affiliation Program in Quantitative and Systems Biology, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

David H. Ardell

dardell@ucmerced.edu

Affiliation Program in Quantitative and Systems Biology, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KCHA WDS DHA. Performed the experiments: KCHA WDS DHA. Analyzed the data: KCHA WDS DHA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KCHA WDS DHA. Wrote the paper: KCHA WDS DHA.