About the Authors

Mardi S. Byerly

mardibyerly@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Physiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Metabolism and Obesity Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Roy D. Swanson

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

G. William Wong

Affiliations Department of Physiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Metabolism and Obesity Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Seth Blackshaw

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Center for High throughput Technology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSB SB. Performed the experiments: MSB RDS. Analyzed the data: MSB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GWW SB. Wrote the paper: MSB GWW SB.