About the Authors

Mohammad Niknazar

‡ These authors are co-first authors.

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, University of California Riverside, 900 University Ave, Riverside, CA, 92521, United States of America, Department of Psychology, University of California Riverside, 900 University Ave, Riverside, CA, 92521, United States of America

Giri P. Krishnan

‡ These authors are co-first authors.

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, University of California Riverside, 900 University Ave, Riverside, CA, 92521, United States of America

Maxim Bazhenov

bazhenov@salk.edu (MB); sara.mednick@ucr.edu (SCM)

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, University of California Riverside, 900 University Ave, Riverside, CA, 92521, United States of America

Sara C. Mednick

bazhenov@salk.edu (MB); sara.mednick@ucr.edu (SCM)

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of California Riverside, 900 University Ave, Riverside, CA, 92521, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB SCM. Performed the experiments: SCM. Analyzed the data: MN GPK. Wrote the paper: MN GPK MB SCM.