About the Authors

Marine Hovakimyan

marine.hovakimyan@uni-rostock.de

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany, Department of Anatomy, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Jana Petersen

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Fabian Maass

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Maria Reichard

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Martin Witt

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Jan Lukas

Affiliation Albrecht-Kossel-Institute for Neuroregeneration, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Oliver Stachs

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Rudolf Guthoff

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Arndt Rolfs

Affiliation Albrecht-Kossel-Institute for Neuroregeneration, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Andreas Wree

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH AW AR. Performed the experiments: MH MW JP FM JL AW MR. Analyzed the data: MH MW AW OS RG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OS AR RG AW. Wrote the paper: MH MW AW.