About the Authors

Nicolas Di-Poï

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Animal Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Swizerland

József Zákány

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Animal Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Swizerland

Denis Duboule

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: denis.duboule@zoo.unige.ch

Affiliations Department of Zoology and Animal Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Swizerland , School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

NDP, JZ, and DD conceived and designed the experiments and analyzed the data. NDP performed the experiments. JZ isolated the novel recombinant alleles and identified the homozygous Del(4–11) kidney hypoplasia phenotype. NDP and DD wrote the paper.