About the Authors

Rea P. Anunciado-Koza

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, Maine, United States of America

Justin Manuel

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, Maine, United States of America

Randall L. Mynatt

Affiliation Transgenics Core Facility, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, LSU System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Jingying Zhang

Affiliation Transgenics Core Facility, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, LSU System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Leslie P. Kozak

Affiliation Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Olsztyn, Poland

Robert A. Koza

rkoza@mmc.org

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, Maine, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RAK LPK. Formal analysis: RAK RPA. Funding acquisition: RAK. Investigation: RAK RPA JM. Methodology: RLM JZ RAK RPA. Project administration: RAK. Visualization: RAK. Writing – original draft: RAK. Writing – review & editing: LPK RPA.