About the Authors

Wanhe Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Wanhe Li, Ying Jin, Lisa Prazak

Affiliations Graduate Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Ying Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Wanhe Li, Ying Jin, Lisa Prazak

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Lisa Prazak

Contributed equally to this work with: Wanhe Li, Ying Jin, Lisa Prazak

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Molly Hammell

* ; dubnau@cshl.edu(JD), mhammell@cshl.edu (MH)

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Josh Dubnau

* ; dubnau@cshl.edu(JD), mhammell@cshl.edu (MH)

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

This project has been funded in part by DART LLC. Although patent filing is under consideration on this work, none of the authors receive any personal consulting or other fees from DART LLC. The authors' funding from DART LLC does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Originated the hypothesis: WL LP JD. Primarily conducted the analyses: WL YJ MH. Prepared the manuscript: WL YJ LP MH JD.