About the Authors

Rami Makki

Contributed equally to this work with: Rami Makki, Marie Meister

Current address: MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom

Affiliations Université Toulouse 3, Toulouse, France, Centre de Biologie du Développement UMR5547 CNRS Toulouse, France

Marie Meister

Contributed equally to this work with: Rami Makki, Marie Meister

Current address: Museum of Zoology, Strasbourg, France

Affiliation Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, UPR9022 CNRS, Strasbourg, France

Delphine Pennetier

Affiliations Université Toulouse 3, Toulouse, France, Centre de Biologie du Développement UMR5547 CNRS Toulouse, France

Jean-Michel Ubeda

Current address: Laboratoire de Parasitologie et Mycologie, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

Affiliation Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, UPR9022 CNRS, Strasbourg, France

Anne Braun

Current address: Charles River Laboratories, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, UPR9022 CNRS, Strasbourg, France

Virginie Daburon

Affiliations Université Toulouse 3, Toulouse, France, Centre de Biologie du Développement UMR5547 CNRS Toulouse, France

Joanna Krzemień

Current address: Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Affiliations Université Toulouse 3, Toulouse, France, Centre de Biologie du Développement UMR5547 CNRS Toulouse, France

Henri-Marc Bourbon

Affiliations Université Toulouse 3, Toulouse, France, Centre de Biologie du Développement UMR5547 CNRS Toulouse, France

Rui Zhou

Affiliation Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alain Vincent

vincent@cict.fr (AV); crozat@cict.fr (MC)

Affiliations Université Toulouse 3, Toulouse, France, Centre de Biologie du Développement UMR5547 CNRS Toulouse, France

Michèle Crozatier

vincent@cict.fr (AV); crozat@cict.fr (MC)

Affiliations Université Toulouse 3, Toulouse, France, Centre de Biologie du Développement UMR5547 CNRS Toulouse, France

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: RM MM DP AV MC. Performed the experiments: RM MM DP VD MC. Analyzed the data: RM MM DP AV MC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RM JMU AB JK HMB RZ MC. Wrote the paper: AV MC.