About the Authors

Chueh-Ling Kuo

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States of America

George A. Oyler

Affiliation Synaptic Research LLC, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Charles B. Shoemaker

charles.shoemaker@tufts.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

GO is an employee of Synaptic Research LLC. A patent application on some technology reported in this manuscript has been submitted by Tufts University that includes the authors as inventors. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS CK. Performed the experiments: CK. Analyzed the data: CK GO CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GO. Wrote the paper: CS CK.