About the Authors

Julie S. Pendergast

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Kevin D. Niswender

Affiliations Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Shin Yamazaki

shin.yamazaki@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

Shin Yamazaki is an academic editor at PLoS ONE. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Other authors declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JSP KDN SY. Performed the experiments: JSP SY. Analyzed the data: JSP SY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KDN SY. Wrote the paper: JSP SY.