About the Authors

Sarah E. Nicholas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology/ Dean McGee Eye Institute, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Tyler G. Rowsey

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology/ Dean McGee Eye Institute, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Shrestha Priyadarsini

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology/ Dean McGee Eye Institute, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Nawajes A. Mandal

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology /University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology /University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Dimitrios Karamichos

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dimitrios-karamichos@ouhsc.edu

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology/ Dean McGee Eye Institute, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology/ University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.