About the Authors

Nneka M. George

ngeorge@email.unc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Julia Whitaker

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Giovana Vieira

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Jerome T. Geronimo

Affiliation Department of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Dwight A. Bellinger

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Craig A. Fletcher

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Joseph P. Garner

Affiliations Department of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NMG JW GV DAB CAF JPG. Performed the experiments: NMG JW. Analyzed the data: JPG JTG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CAF JPG. Wrote the paper: NMG JW JTG DAB CAF JPG.