About the Authors

Hong Pan

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Pan, Meihua He

Affiliations Neuroscience Research Institute, Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, Department of Anatomy/Embryology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, Department of Physiology, Binzhou Medical College, Yantai, Shandong, China, Key Laboratory on Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), Peking University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory for Visual Impairment and Restoration (Ministry of Education), Peking University, Beijing, China

Meihua He

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Pan, Meihua He

Affiliations Department of Anatomy/Embryology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory on Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), Peking University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory for Visual Impairment and Restoration (Ministry of Education), Peking University, Beijing, China

Ruixing Liu

Affiliations Department of Anatomy/Embryology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory on Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), Peking University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory for Visual Impairment and Restoration (Ministry of Education), Peking University, Beijing, China

Nicholas C. Brecha

Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, Department of Medicine, Jules Stein Eye Institute, CURE Digestive Diseases Research Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at Los Angeles, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Veterans Administration Greater Los Angeles Health System, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Albert Cheung Hoi Yu

Affiliation Neuroscience Research Institute, Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Mingliang Pu

mpu@hsc.pku.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Anatomy/Embryology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory on Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), Peking University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory for Visual Impairment and Restoration (Ministry of Education), Peking University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ACY MP. Performed the experiments: HP MH. Analyzed the data: HP MH RL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NCB. Wrote the paper: MP.

helloThese authors contributed equally to this work.