About the Authors

Angela Kuhla

Contributed equally to this work with: Angela Kuhla, Sophie Lange

angela.kuhla@uni-rostock.de

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Surgery, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Sophie Lange

Contributed equally to this work with: Angela Kuhla, Sophie Lange

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Carsten Holzmann

Affiliation Institute of Medical Genetics, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Fabian Maass

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Jana Petersen

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Brigitte Vollmar

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Surgery, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Andreas Wree

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AW SL BV AK. Performed the experiments: AW SL BV AK JP FM. Analyzed the data: SL AK CH JP FM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL AK CH. Wrote the paper: SL AK AW BV CH.