About the Authors

Qiang Qiu

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Aaron Scott

Current address: University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Hayley Scheerer

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Nirjal Sapkota

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Daniel K. Lee

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Limei Ma

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

C. Ron Yu

cry@stowers.org

Affiliations Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QQ LM CRY. Performed the experiments: QQ AS HS LM. Analyzed the data: QQ HS. Wrote the paper: LM CRY. Wrote the software package: AS. Constructed olfactometers: AS DKL NS CRY.