About the Authors

Ruishuang Geng

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruishuang Geng, Teppei Noda

Affiliation Biological Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Teppei Noda

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruishuang Geng, Teppei Noda

Affiliation Biological Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joanna F. Mulvaney

Affiliation Biological Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vincent Y. W. Lin

Affiliations Biological Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Albert S. B. Edge

Affiliation Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alain Dabdoub

alain.dabdoub@sri.utoroto.ca

Affiliations Biological Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RG TN AE AD. Performed the experiments: RG TN. Analyzed the data: RG TN JM VL AE AD. Wrote the paper: RG TN JM VL AE AD.