About the Authors

Alton G. Swennes

Current address: Center for Comparative Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

AGS and AS are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alexander Sheh

AGS and AS are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nicola M. A. Parry

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sureshkumar Muthupalani

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kvin Lertpiriyapong

Current address: Department of Comparative Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alexis García

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

James G. Fox

jgfox@mit.edu

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AGS AG KL JGF. Performed the experiments: AGS AS NMAP. Analyzed the data: AGS AS NMAP KL AG SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KL JGF SM. Wrote the paper: AGS AS JGF.