About the Authors

Leanne M. Redman

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Leonie K. Heilbronn

Current address: Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Corby K. Martin

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Lilian de Jonge

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Donald A. Williamson

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

James P. Delany

Current address: Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Eric Ravussin

ravusse@pbrc.edu

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

for the Pennington CALERIE team

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DAW ER. Performed the experiments: LMR LKH CKM Ld JPD ER. Analyzed the data: DAW JPD ER. Wrote the paper: LMR LKH CKM Ld ER.