About the Authors

Aidan J. Peterson

Contributed equally to this work with: Aidan J. Peterson, Philip A. Jensen

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Philip A. Jensen

Contributed equally to this work with: Aidan J. Peterson, Philip A. Jensen

Current address: Department of Biology, Rocky Mountain College, Billings, Montana, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

MaryJane Shimell

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Ray Stefancsik

Current address: FlyBase, University of Cambridge, Division of Genetics, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Affiliation Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ranjula Wijayatonge

Current address: Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rachel Herder

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Laurel A. Raftery

Affiliations Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America, School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Michael B. O'Connor

moconnor@umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AJP PAJ MBO. Performed the experiments: AJP PAJ MS. Analyzed the data: AJP PAJ MS MBO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS RW RH LAR. Wrote the paper: AJP PAJ MBO.