About the Authors

Yu Bo Yang Sun

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Xinli Qu

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Xueming Zhang

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Baotou Medical College, Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Baotou, People's Republic of China

Georgina Caruana

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

John F. Bertram

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Jinhua Li

jinhua.li@monash.edu

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS JL. Performed the experiments: YS XQ XZ. Analyzed the data: YS JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL. Wrote the paper: YS JL GC JB.