About the Authors

Rachna Kaushik

¤ Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America , National Center for Behavioral Genomics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America , Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Pipat Nawathean

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America , National Center for Behavioral Genomics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America , Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ania Busza

Affiliations University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America , Program in Neuroscience, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America , MD/PhD Program, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alejandro Murad

Affiliations University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America , Program in Neuroscience, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Patrick Emery

Affiliations University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America , Program in Neuroscience, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael Rosbash

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rosbash@brandeis.edu

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America , National Center for Behavioral Genomics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America , Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

RK, PN, and MR conceived and designed the experiments. RK and PN performed the experiments. AB contributed to experiments in Figure 6. RK, PN and MR analyzed the data. RK, PN, AM, PE, and MR contributed reagents /materials /analysis tools. RK and MR wrote the paper.