About the Authors

Rachel Clemens Grisham

Affiliation Oregon Hearing Research Center and Vollum Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Katie Kindt

Affiliation Oregon Hearing Research Center and Vollum Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Karin Finger-Baier

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Neurobiology, Dept. Genes - Circuits ­ Behavior, Martinsried, Germany

Bettina Schmid

Affiliations German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Munich, Germany, Adolf-Butenandt-Institute, Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Teresa Nicolson

nicolson@ohsu.edu

Affiliation Oregon Hearing Research Center and Vollum Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TN KK RCG. Performed the experiments: TN RCG KFB BS KK. Analyzed the data: TN RCG KFB BS KK. Wrote the paper: TN RCG KK.