About the Authors

Jin Qi

Affiliation Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute, James and Jean Culver Vision Discovery Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, 30912, United States of America

Zhiyong Yang

zhyang@gru.edu

Affiliation Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute, James and Jean Culver Vision Discovery Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, 30912, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZY JQ. Performed the experiments: JQ ZY. Analyzed the data: JQ ZY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JQ ZY. Wrote the paper: ZY JQ.