Article Information
- Received October 26, 2010
- Revision received May 17, 2011
- Accepted May 23, 2011
- First published July 6, 2011.
- Version of record published July 6, 2011.
Author Information
- Aaron G. Blankenship1,2,
- Aaron M. Hamby2,*,
- Alana Firl3,*,
- Shri Vyas2,
- Stephan Maxeiner5,
- Klaus Willecke5, and
- Marla B. Feller2,4
- 1Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093,
- 2Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
- 3Vision Sciences Graduate Program, Department of Optometry, and
- 4Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, and
- 5LIMES (Life and Medical Sciences) Institute, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
Author contributions
Author contributions: A.G.B., A.M.H., A.F., and M.B.F. designed research; A.G.B., A.M.H., A.F., and S.V., performed research; A.F., S.M., and K.W. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; A.G.B., A.M.H., A.F., S.V., and M.B.F. analyzed data; A.G.B., A.M.H., A.F., S.V., S.M., K.W., and M.B.F. wrote the paper.
↵*A.M.H. and A.F. contributed equally.
Disclosures
- Received October 26, 2010.
- Revision received May 17, 2011.
- Accepted May 23, 2011.
Support was contributed by NIH Grant RO1EY013528 (M.B.F.), NSF Grant IOS-0818983 (M.B.F.), and NIH Grant F31NS058167 (A.G.B.). Work in the Bonn laboratory was supported by a grant from the German Research Foundation Wi 270/22-3/4 to K.W. We thank Kevin Ford for help with calcium imaging analysis and Dr. Lars Holzhausen and the University of California, Berkeley Molecular Imaging Center for technical assistance.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Marla B. Feller, 142 Life Sciences Additions MSC 3200, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200. mfeller{at}berkeley.edu
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