About the Authors

Bosiljka Tasic

Contributed equally to this work with: Bosiljka Tasic, Kazunari Miyamichi, Simon Hippenmeyer

Current address: Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Insitute, Stanford University, California, United States of America

Kazunari Miyamichi

Contributed equally to this work with: Bosiljka Tasic, Kazunari Miyamichi, Simon Hippenmeyer

Affiliation Department of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Insitute, Stanford University, California, United States of America

Simon Hippenmeyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Bosiljka Tasic, Kazunari Miyamichi, Simon Hippenmeyer

Affiliation Department of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Insitute, Stanford University, California, United States of America

Vardhan S. Dani

Affiliation Department of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Insitute, Stanford University, California, United States of America

Hong Zeng

Affiliation Transgenic Facility, Stanford Cancer Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, United States of America

William Joo

Affiliations Department of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Insitute, Stanford University, California, United States of America, Neurosciences Program, Stanford University, California, United States of America

Hui Zong

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

Yanru Chen-Tsai

Affiliation Transgenic Facility, Stanford Cancer Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, United States of America

Liqun Luo

llou@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Insitute, Stanford University, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BT KM SH LL. Performed the experiments: BT KM SH VSD H. Zeng WJ. Analyzed the data: BT KM SH VD LL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: H. Zong YC. Wrote the paper: BT KM SH LL. Created and characterized the R26 knock-ins and MADM-Tet: BT KM VSD H. Zong. Performed ES cell random transgenesis and characterized M1 and M10: KM H. Zeng. Performed tests for biallelic expression: BT KM SH. Performed the translocation analysis: BT KM SH WJ.