About the Authors

Takahiko Sato

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité de Recherche Associée 2578, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Didier Rocancourt

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité de Recherche Associée 2578, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Luís Marques

Affiliations Department of Animal Biology and Centre for Environmental Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal

Sólveig Thorsteinsdóttir

Affiliations Department of Animal Biology and Centre for Environmental Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal

Margaret Buckingham

margaret.buckingham@pasteur.fr

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité de Recherche Associée 2578, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB. Performed the experiments: TS DR. Analyzed the data: TS ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LM ST. Wrote the paper: MB.