About the Authors

Sung-Ho Huh

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jennifer Jones

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Mark E. Warchol

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

David M. Ornitz

dornitz@wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: SH DMO. Performed the experiments: SH JJ. Analyzed the data: SH JJ MEW DMO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH. Wrote the paper: SH JJ MEW DMO.