About the Authors

Ying Gu

Affiliations Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Molecular and Developmental Biology Graduate Program, School of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Christopher Runyan

Affiliation Division of Plastic Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Amanda Shoemaker

Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

M. Azim Surani

Affiliation Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Christopher Wylie

Christopher.Wylie@cchmc.org

Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CW YG. Performed the experiments: YG AS. Analyzed the data: YG CW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CR MAS. Wrote the paper: YG CW.