About the Authors

Ajeet Pratap Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Ajeet Pratap Singh, Rudra Nayan Das, Gururaj Rao

Current address: Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India

Rudra Nayan Das

Contributed equally to this work with: Ajeet Pratap Singh, Rudra Nayan Das, Gururaj Rao

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India

Gururaj Rao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ajeet Pratap Singh, Rudra Nayan Das, Gururaj Rao

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India

Aman Aggarwal

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India

Soeren Diegelmann

Current address: Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jan Felix Evers

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Hrishikesh Karandikar

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

Matthias Landgraf

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Veronica Rodrigues

† Deceased.

Affiliations National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India, Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

K. VijayRaghavan

vijay@ncbs.res.in

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: APS VR KV. Performed the experiments: APS RND GR AA HK. Analyzed the data: APS RND GR KV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SD JFE ML. Wrote the paper: APS KV.