About the Authors

Mark E. Warchol

warcholm@ent.wustl.edu

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Reto A. Schwendener

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Keiko Hirose

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MEW KH. Performed the experiments: MEW. Analyzed the data: MEW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RAS. Wrote the paper: MEW KH.