About the Authors

Vincent T. Metzger

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

James O. Lloyd-Smith

jlloydsmith@ucla.edu (JOLS); lsw@ucsd.edu (LSW)

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Leor S. Weinberger

jlloydsmith@ucla.edu (JOLS); lsw@ucsd.edu (LSW)

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LSW. Performed the experiments: LSW. Analyzed the data: VTM JOLS LSW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LSW. Wrote the manuscript: VTM JOLS LSW.