About the Authors

Jolena N. Waddell

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Peijing Zhang

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Yefei Wen

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Sanjay K. Gupta

Affiliation Department of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Aleksey Yevtodiyenko

Affiliation Division of Oncology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jennifer V. Schmidt

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Christopher A. Bidwell

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Ashok Kumar

Affiliation Department of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Shihuan Kuang

skuang@purdue.edu

Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Center for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK JNW. Performed the experiments: JNW PZ YW SKG SK. Analyzed the data: JNW PZ AK SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AY JVS CAB. Wrote the paper: JNW AK SK.