About the Authors

Gareth J. Voss

Affiliations Department of Biology & Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Math, Science, and Technology Center, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

D. Kevin Kump

Affiliation Department of Biology & Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

John A. Walker

Affiliation Department of Biology & Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

S. Randal Voss

srvoss@uky.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology & Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SRV. Performed the experiments: SRV GJV DKK JAW. Analyzed the data: SRV GJV. Wrote the paper: SRV GJV.