About the Authors

Sandra Rieger

Current address: Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Affiliation Institute of Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich-Neuherberg, Germany

Niklas Senghaas

Affiliation Institute of Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich-Neuherberg, Germany

Axel Walch

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich-Neuherberg, Germany

Reinhard W. Köster

Reinhard.Koester@helmholtz-muenchen.de

Affiliation Institute of Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich-Neuherberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: SR NS RWK. Performed the experiments: SR NS. Analyzed the data: SR NS AW RWK. Wrote the paper: SR NS AW RWK.