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- Received June 4, 2012
- Revision received August 29, 2012
- Accepted September 12, 2012
- First published November 14, 2012.
- Version of record published November 14, 2012.
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- Lesley Emtage1,
- Sonya Aziz-Zaman1,
- Olivia Padovan-Merhar2,
- H. Robert Horvitz3,
- Christopher Fang-Yen2, and
- Niels Ringstad1
- 1Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, Molecular Neurobiology Program, Department of Cell Biology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York 10016,
- 2Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, and
- 3Department of Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Author contributions
Author contributions: L.E., S.A.-Z., O.P.-M., C.F.-Y., and N.R. designed research; L.E., S.A.-Z., O.P.-M., C.F.-Y., and N.R. performed research; H.R.H. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; H.R.H., C.F.-Y., and N.R. analyzed data; L.E. and N.R. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received June 4, 2012.
- Revision received August 29, 2012.
- Accepted September 12, 2012.
This work was supported by NIH Grant R01-GM024663 (H.R.H.) and NIH Grant R01-GM098320 (N.R.). N.R. is a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. Some strains were provided by the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center, which is funded by the National Center for Research Resources. We thank Alexander Gottschalk for providing a ChR2 expression construct and Kara Zang for comments on this manuscript.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Niels Ringstad at the above address. niels.ringstad{at}med.nyu.edu
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