About the Authors

Eldon Emberly

Contributed equally to this work with: Eldon Emberly, Olivier Cuvier

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: eemberly@sfu.ca (EE); cuvier@igh.cnrs.fr (OC)

Affiliation Physics Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Roxane Blattes

Affiliation CNRS, Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Eucaryote, Université de Toulouse, UPS, France

Bernd Schuettengruber

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Lousiana, United States of America

Magali Hennion

Affiliations CNRS, Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Eucaryote, Université de Toulouse, UPS, France , Institut de Genetique Humaine, Department of Genome Dynamics, CNRS, Montpelier, France

Nan Jiang

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Lousiana, United States of America

Craig M Hart

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Lousiana, United States of America

Emmanuel Käs

Affiliation CNRS, Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Eucaryote, Université de Toulouse, UPS, France

Olivier Cuvier

Contributed equally to this work with: Eldon Emberly, Olivier Cuvier

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: eemberly@sfu.ca (EE); cuvier@igh.cnrs.fr (OC)

Affiliation Institut de Genetique Humaine, Department of Genome Dynamics, CNRS, Montpelier, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

OC conceived and designed the experiments. EE, RB, BS, MH, NJ, and OC performed the experiments. EE, RB, BS, MH, NJ, CMH, EK, and OC analyzed the data. EE, BS, MH, NJ, CMH, EK, and OC contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. OC wrote the paper.