About the Authors

Michael B. Walker

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Benjamin L. King

Affiliations The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, Maine, United States of America

Kenneth Paigen

kenneth.paigen@jax.org

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KP MBW BLK. Performed the experiments: MBW. Analyzed the data: KP MBW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MBW. Wrote the paper: KP MBW.