About the Authors

Bryony Davidson

Current address: Dow Corning, Barry, United Kingdom

Affiliation School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Alison A. Murray

Affiliation Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Alistair Elfick

Contributed equally to this work with: Alistair Elfick, Norah Spears

Affiliation School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Norah Spears

Contributed equally to this work with: Alistair Elfick, Norah Spears

norah.spears@ed.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BD AE NS. Performed the experiments: BD AAM. Analyzed the data: BD AE NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AE NS. Wrote the paper: BD AE NS.