About the Authors

Tracy M. Yamawaki

Current address: Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jennifer R. Berman

Current address: Self-employed, Mountain View, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Monika Suchanek-Kavipurapu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Mark McCormick

Current address: Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Marta Maria Gaglia

Current address: Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Seung-Jae Lee

Current address: Division of Molecular and Life Sciences/I-BIO/World Class University Program IT Convergence Engineering, Pohang University of Science & Technology, Pohang, South Korea

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Cynthia Kenyon

cynthia.kenyon@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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: TMY CK. Performed the experiments: TMY JRB. Analyzed the data: TMY CK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM MMG SJL. Wrote the paper: TMY CK. Initial work examining the daf-16 requirement for cdr-6 expression in germ cell (−) animals: MSK.