About the Authors

Emily Northrup

Contributed equally to this work with: Emily Northrup, Nils-Holger Zschemisch

Northrup.Emily@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Nils-Holger Zschemisch

Contributed equally to this work with: Emily Northrup, Nils-Holger Zschemisch

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Regina Eisenblätter

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Silke Glage

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Dirk Wedekind

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Edwin Cuppen

Affiliation Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Martina Dorsch

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Hans-Jürgen Hedrich

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EN NHZ DW EC HJH. Performed the experiments: EN NHZ RE SG DW EC MD. Analyzed the data: EN NHZ RE SG DW EC MD HJH. Wrote the paper: EN NHZ.