About the Authors

Megumi Hatori

Affiliation The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Hiep Le

Affiliation The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Christopher Vollmers

Affiliation The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sheena Racheal Keding

Affiliation The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Nobushige Tanaka

Current address: Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan

Affiliation The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Christian Schmedt

Affiliation Genomics Institute of Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Timothy Jegla

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Satchidananda Panda

satchin@salk.edu

Affiliation The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP. Performed the experiments: CS SP TJ MH HL NT SK. Analyzed the data: SP MH VC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS TJ. Wrote the paper: SP MH.