About the Authors
- Devanand S. Manoli
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Affiliations Department of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Deepa Subramanyam
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Affiliation Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Catriona Carey
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Affiliation Department of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Erik Sudin
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Current address: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Berkeley, California, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Julie A. Van Westerhuyzen
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Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Karen L. Bales
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Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Robert Blelloch
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Affiliations Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Center for Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Nirao M. Shah
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* E-mail: nms@ucsf.edu
Affiliations Department of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Center for Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interests: Erik Sudin is currently employed by Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics. Erik was employed by the University of California, San Francisco (and not by Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics) at the time that he performed experiments relating to this manuscript. The authors note that Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics has in no way participated in this study and has no competing interests in the work presented in this study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DSM NMS. Performed the experiments: DSM DS ES JAVW NMS. Analyzed the data: DSM DS NMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DSM KLB RB NMS. Wrote the paper: DSM NMS.