About the Authors

Brandon D. Kayser

Affiliations Human and Evolutionary Biology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, Childhood Obesity Research Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Michael I. Goran

goran@usc.edu

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, Childhood Obesity Research Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sebastien G. Bouret

Affiliation Developmental Neuroscience Program, The Saban Research Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BDK MIG SGB. Performed the experiments: BDK. Analyzed the data: BDK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MIG SGB. Wrote the paper: BDK MIG SGB.