About the Authors

Connie Tam

Affiliation School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Jeffrey LeDue

Affiliation School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

James J. Mun

Affiliation Program in Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Paul Herzmark

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Ellen A. Robey

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

David J. Evans

Affiliations School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, College of Pharmacy, Touro University California, Vallejo, California, United States of America

Suzanne M. J. Fleiszig

fleiszig@berkeley.edu

Affiliations School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Program in Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Programs in Infectious Diseases and Immunity and Microbiology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CT DJE EAR SMJF. Performed the experiments: CT JL JJM PH. Analyzed the data: CT JL EAR DJE SMJF. Wrote the paper: CT JL EAR DJE SMJF. Developed the traversal quantification method: JL CT.