About the Authors

Ramesh Periasamy

Contributed equally to this work with: Ramesh Periasamy, Dwani D. Patel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Dwani D. Patel

Contributed equally to this work with: Ramesh Periasamy, Dwani D. Patel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America, Cell Biology, Neurobiology, Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Sanford L. Boye

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Powell Gene Therapy Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Shannon E. Boye

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Daniel M. Lipinski

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

dlipinski@mcw.edu

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America, Cell Biology, Neurobiology, Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.