About the Authors

Frank Mei

Contributed equally to this work with: Frank Mei, Peter F. Chen

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Peter F. Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Frank Mei, Peter F. Chen

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Carolyn R. Dombecki

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Imad Aljabban

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Kentaro Nabeshima

knabe@med.umich.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FM PFC CRD KN. Performed the experiments: FM PFC CRD IA. Analyzed the data: FM PFC CRD KN. Wrote the paper: FM PFC KN.