About the Authors

Hongyu Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongyu Zhao, Matthew R. Avenarius

Affiliation Oregon Hearing Research Center and Vollum Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Matthew R. Avenarius

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongyu Zhao, Matthew R. Avenarius

Affiliation Oregon Hearing Research Center and Vollum Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Peter G. Gillespie

gillespp@ohsu.edu

Affiliation Oregon Hearing Research Center and Vollum Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HZ MRA PGG. Performed the experiments: HZ MRA. Analyzed the data: PGG. Wrote the paper: HZ PGG.