About the Authors

Lili Yu

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Valter Tucci

Current address: Neurobehavioral Genetics, Medical Research Council Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shuji Kishi

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Irina V. Zhdanova

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: zhdanova@bu.edu

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IZ LY VT. Performed the experiments: IZ LY VT. Analyzed the data: IZ LY VT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK. Wrote the paper: IZ LY VT