About the Authors

Joseph Alan Wamstad

Affiliation Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics Graduate Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Connie Marie Corcoran

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development and Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Anne Marjorie Keating

Affiliation Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics Graduate Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Vivian J. Bardwell

bardw001@umn.edu

Affiliations Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics Graduate Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development and Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAW CMC AMK VJB. Performed the experiments: JAW CMC AMK. Analyzed the data: JAW CMC VJB. Wrote the paper: JAW AMK VJB.