About the Authors

Robi Tacutu

Contributed equally to this work with: Robi Tacutu, David E. Shore, Arie Budovsky

Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Aging, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

David E. Shore

Contributed equally to this work with: Robi Tacutu, David E. Shore, Arie Budovsky

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Arie Budovsky

Contributed equally to this work with: Robi Tacutu, David E. Shore, Arie Budovsky

Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Aging, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

João Pedro de Magalhães

Affiliation Integrative Genomics of Ageing Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Gary Ruvkun

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Vadim E. Fraifeld

vadim.fraifeld@gmail.com (VEF); spcurran@usc.edu (SPC)

Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Aging, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Sean P. Curran

vadim.fraifeld@gmail.com (VEF); spcurran@usc.edu (SPC)

Affiliations Division of Biogerontology, Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Computational Biology, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GR VEF SPC. Performed the experiments: RT DES AB SPC. Analyzed the data: RT DES JPdM VEF SPC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GR VEF SPC. Wrote the paper: DES VEF SPC.