About the Authors

Shane L Rea

Contributed equally to this work with: Shane L Rea, Natascia Ventura

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: reas@uthscsa.edu

Affiliation Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies and the Department of Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Natascia Ventura

Contributed equally to this work with: Shane L Rea, Natascia Ventura

Affiliation Laboratory of Signal Transduction, Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

Thomas E Johnson

Affiliation Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SLR and NV conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, and analyzed the data. SLR, NV, and TEJ contributed materials and wrote the paper.