About the Authors

Ai-Sun Tseng

Contributed equally to this work with: Ai-Sun Tseng, Kátia Carneiro

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kátia Carneiro

Contributed equally to this work with: Ai-Sun Tseng, Kátia Carneiro

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Joan M. Lemire

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael Levin

michael.levin@tufts.edu

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS-T KC ML. Performed the experiments: AS-T KC JML. Analyzed the data: AS-T KC JML ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS-T KC. Wrote the paper: AS-T KC ML.