Article Information
- Received May 20, 2012
- Revision received July 23, 2012
- Accepted July 28, 2012
- First published October 3, 2012.
- Version of record published October 3, 2012.
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Author contributions
Author contributions: A.S. and E. Ahissar designed research; A.S. and G.G. performed research; A.A. and E. Ahissar contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; A.S., G.G., E. Assa, and E. Ahissar analyzed data; A.S., G.G., E. Assa, A.A., and E. Ahissar wrote the paper.
↵*A.S. and G.G. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received May 20, 2012.
- Revision received July 23, 2012.
- Accepted July 28, 2012.
This work was supported by European Union Grant BIOTACT (ICT-215910), Israeli Science Foundation Grant No. 749/10, United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation Grant No. 2007121, and the Minerva Foundation, funded by the Federal German Ministry for Education and Research. E. Ahissar holds the Helen Diller Family Professorial Chair of Neurobiology. A.S. was supported by the Adams Fellowship Program of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. We thank R. Malach, D. Sagi, D. Shore, and N. Ulanovsky for helpful discussions; and B. Schick for reviewing the manuscript. We thank S. Haidarliu for drawing Figure 1A.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Ehud Ahissar, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 76100, Israel. ehud.ahissar{at}weizmann.ac.il