About the Authors

Ruojia Li

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Rachel Strykowski

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Michael Meyer

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Patrick Mulcrone

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Dan Krakora

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Masatoshi Suzuki

msuzuki@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu

Affiliations Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, The Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL MS. Performed the experiments: RL RS MM PM DK MS. Analyzed the data: RL MS. Wrote the paper: RL DK MS.