About the Authors

Eugenia Poliakov

Contributed equally to this work with: Eugenia Poliakov, Alexander N. Gubin

Affiliation Laboratory of Retinal Cell & Molecular Biology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Alexander N. Gubin

Contributed equally to this work with: Eugenia Poliakov, Alexander N. Gubin

Affiliation Laboratory of Retinal Cell & Molecular Biology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Olivia Stearn

Affiliation Laboratory of Retinal Cell & Molecular Biology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yan Li

Affiliation Laboratory of Retinal Cell & Molecular Biology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Maria Mercedes Campos

Affiliation Biological Imaging Core, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Susan Gentleman

Affiliation Laboratory of Retinal Cell & Molecular Biology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Igor B. Rogozin

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

T. Michael Redmond

redmondd@helix.nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Retinal Cell & Molecular Biology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EP ANG IBR TMR. Performed the experiments: EP ANG OS YL MMC SG IBR TMR. Analyzed the data: EP SG IBR TMR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL MMC SG IBR. Wrote the paper: EP ANG SG IBR TMR.