About the Authors

Shanthini Mahendrasingam

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Robert Fettiplace

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, WI, United States of America

Kumar N. Alagramam

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, OH, United States of America

Ellen Cross

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

David N. Furness

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

d.n.furness@keele.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.