About the Authors

G. Charles Ostermeier

Contributed equally to this work with: G. Charles Ostermeier, Michael V. Wiles

Affiliations Technology Evaluation and Development, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America, Reproductive Sciences, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Michael V. Wiles

Contributed equally to this work with: G. Charles Ostermeier, Michael V. Wiles

Affiliation Technology Evaluation and Development, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Jane S. Farley

Affiliation Reproductive Sciences, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Robert A. Taft

rob.taft@jax.org

Affiliation Reproductive Sciences, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Competing Interests

The following authors G. Charles Ostermeier, Michael V. Wiles, Jane S. Farley, and Robert A. Taft are also inventors on a patent application containing some subject matter that is described in this manuscript; the application is assigned to The Jackson Laboratory and managed by The Jackson Laboratory office of technology transfer.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GCO MVW JSF RAT. Performed the experiments: GCO JSF. Analyzed the data: GCO MVW JSF RAT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MVW RAT. Wrote the paper: GCO MVW RAT.