About the Authors

Helen B. Forrester

Contributed equally to this work with: Helen B. Forrester, Peter Temple-Smith

Affiliation Centre for Innate Immunology and Infectious Disease, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Peter Temple-Smith

Contributed equally to this work with: Helen B. Forrester, Peter Temple-Smith

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Southern Clinical School, Monash University, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Prince Henry's Institute, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne Institute of Plastic Surgery, Malvern, Victoria, Australia

Seungmin Ham

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Southern Clinical School, Monash University, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Prince Henry's Institute, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

David de Kretser

Affiliations Centre for Reproduction and Development, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Graeme Southwick

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne Institute of Plastic Surgery, Malvern, Victoria, Australia

Carl N. Sprung

carl.sprung@monash.edu

Affiliation Centre for Innate Immunology and Infectious Disease, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PTS DDK GS CNS. Performed the experiments: HBF PTS SH CNS. Analyzed the data: HBF PTS CNS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PTS GS CNS. Wrote the paper: HBF PTS SH DDK GS CNS.