About the Authors

Olena Babenko

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Andrey Golubov

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Yaroslav Ilnytskyy

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Igor Kovalchuk

Contributed equally to this work with: Igor Kovalchuk, Gerlinde A. Metz

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Gerlinde A. Metz

Contributed equally to this work with: Igor Kovalchuk, Gerlinde A. Metz

gerlinde.metz@uleth.ca

Affiliations Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IK GM. Performed the experiments: OB AG YI. Analyzed the data: OB YI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IK GM. Wrote the paper: OB IK GM.