About the Authors

Yoshiyasu Arai

Affiliation Laboratory of Neural Control, Section on Developmental Neurobiology, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

George Z. Mentis

Affiliation Laboratory of Neural Control, Section on Developmental Neurobiology, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jiang-young Wu

Affiliations Laboratory of Neural Control, Section on Developmental Neurobiology, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Michael J. O'Donovan

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: odonovm@ninds.nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Neural Control, Section on Developmental Neurobiology, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MO YA. Performed the experiments: YA GM. Analyzed the data: MO YA GM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW. Wrote the paper: MO GM JW.