Correction to: Communications Biology https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0227-z, published online 6 December 2018.

The original version of this Article omitted from the author list the 4th author, Ajay Kumar, who is from ‘Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA’. Consequently, the Author Contributions were updated to the following, with the new text indicated in bold:

H.Y., Y.W., Y.Z., and Y.D. designed research; H.Y., Y.W., Y.Z., A.K., K.W., M.S., and Y.D. performed research; H.Y., Y.W., Y.Z., A.K., K.W., M.S., D.B.S., X.X., C.R.E., and Y.D. analyzed the data; and H.Y., Y.W., Y.Z., A.K., C.R.E., and Y.D. wrote the paper.

The errors have been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.