About the Authors

Maria D. Hurtado

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Andres Acosta

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Paola P. Riveros

Affiliation Molecular Physiology and Therapeutics Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Bruce J. Baum

Affiliation Molecular Physiology and Therapeutics Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kirill Ukhanov

Affiliation Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Center for Smell and Taste, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Alicia R. Brown

Affiliation Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Center for Smell and Taste, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Cedrick D. Dotson

Affiliation Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Center for Smell and Taste, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Herbert Herzog

Affiliation Neuroscience Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia

Sergei Zolotukhin

szlt@ufl.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MDH AA CDD HH SZ. Performed the experiments: MDH PPR AB KU SZ. Analyzed the data: MDH AA BB HH CDD SZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BB HH. Wrote the paper: MDH AA BB KU HH.