About the Authors

Stephen M. Topper

Affiliation Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, Cell & Molecular Biology, Department of Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Sara C. Aguilar

Affiliation Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, Cell & Molecular Biology, Department of Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Viktoria Y. Topper

Affiliation Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, Cell & Molecular Biology, Department of Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Erin Elbel

Affiliation Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, Cell & Molecular Biology, Department of Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Jonathan T. Pierce-Shimomura

jonps@austin.utexas.edu

Affiliation Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, Cell & Molecular Biology, Department of Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST JTP. Performed the experiments: ST SCA EE. Analyzed the data: ST VT JTP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ST SCA. Wrote the paper: ST VT JTP.