About the Authors

Wan-Ping Lee

wanping.lee@bc.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael P. Stromberg

Affiliation Department of Biology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alistair Ward

Affiliation Department of Biology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Chip Stewart

Affiliations Department of Biology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Erik P. Garrison

Affiliation Department of Biology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gabor T. Marth

Affiliation Department of Biology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WL AW EG GM. Performed the experiments: WL. Analyzed the data: WL AW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS CS EG. Wrote the paper: WL AW. Started the project: MS.