About the Authors

Anton Delwig

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sriparna Majumdar

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kelly Ahern

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California United States of America

Matthew M. LaVail

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California United States of America

Robert Edwards

Affiliations Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, California, United States of America

Thomas S. Hnasko

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

David R. Copenhagen

cope@phy.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AD DRC. Performed the experiments: AD SM KA. Analyzed the data: AD KA SM DRC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AD SM KA MML TSH RE DRC. Wrote the paper: AD DRC. Designed software used in analysis: AD. Obtained mouse lines: DRC. Fabricated light stimulators: AD SM DRC.