About the Authors

Shruti Haralalka

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110, United States of America

Claude Shelton

Current address: Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19111-2497, United States of America

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110, United States of America

Heather N. Cartwright

Current address: Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California, 94305, United States of America

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110, United States of America

Fengli Guo

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110, United States of America

Rhonda Trimble

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110, United States of America

Ram P. Kumar

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110, United States of America

Susan M. Abmayr

sma@stowers.org

Affiliations Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas, 66160, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH CS HC SA. Performed the experiments: SH CS HC FG RT RK SA. Analyzed the data: SH CS HC FG RT RK SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH CS SA. Wrote the paper: SH SA.