About the Authors

Tiam Feridooni

Contributed equally to this work with: Tiam Feridooni, Adam Hotchkiss

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Adam Hotchkiss

Contributed equally to this work with: Tiam Feridooni, Adam Hotchkiss

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Sarah Remley-Carr

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Yumiko Saga

Affiliation Mammalian Development Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan

Kishore B. S. Pasumarthi

kpasumar@dal.ca

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KBSP. Performed the experiments: TF AH SR-C. Analyzed the data: TF AH SR-C KBSP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KBSP YS. Wrote the paper: KBSP TF AH.