About the Authors

Anton Nikolaev

Contributed equally to this work with: Anton Nikolaev, Lei Zheng

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Lei Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Anton Nikolaev, Lei Zheng

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Trevor J. Wardill

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Cahir J. O'Kane

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Gonzalo G. de Polavieja

Affiliations Department of Theoretical Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Instituto ‘Nicolás Cabrera’ de Física de Materiales, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Mikko Juusola

m.juusola@sheffield.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AN LZ GdP MJ. Performed the experiments: AN LZ MJ. Analyzed the data: GdP MJ. Wrote the paper: GdP MJ. Contributed in writing and editing: AN LZ. Fly genetics: AN. Contributed in writing and editing: AN LZ TW CO. Fly genetics: AN TW CO.