Cataract induction in an arthropod reveals how lens crystallins contribute to the formation of biological glass

• Amartya T. Mitra ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amartya T. Mitra, Shubham Rathore

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

  * E-mail: mitraat@mail.uc.edu (ATM); elke.buschbek@uc.edu (EKB)

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7727-2168

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• Shubham Rathore ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amartya T. Mitra, Shubham Rathore

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7717-053X

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• Augusta Jester,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Ruby Hyland-Brown,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• J. Hassert,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Joshua B. Benoit,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4018-3513

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• Annette Stowasser,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Elke K. Buschbeck

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

  * E-mail: mitraat@mail.uc.edu (ATM); elke.buschbek@uc.edu (EKB)

  ¶‡ Lead contact.

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8563-0826

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