About the Authors

Rebecca M. Boumil

rebecca.boumil@jax.org

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Verity A. Letts

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Monica C. Roberts

† Deceased.

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Christine Lenz

Affiliation InnerEarLab, Department of Otolaryngology and Center for Molecular Physiology of the Brain, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Connie L. Mahaffey

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Zhong-wei Zhang

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Tobias Moser

Affiliation InnerEarLab, Department of Otolaryngology and Center for Molecular Physiology of the Brain, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Wayne N. Frankel

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RMB TM WNF. Performed the experiments: RMB VAL MCR CL CLM ZwZ. Analyzed the data: RMB WNF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RMB VAL MCR CL ZwZ WNF. Wrote the paper: RMB WNF.