About the Authors

Kathryn D. Breneman

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

William E. Brownell

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology - H&NS, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Richard D. Rabbitt

r.rabbitt@utah.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WEB RDR. Performed the experiments: KDB RDR. Analyzed the data: KDB RDR. Wrote the paper: KDB WEB RDR.