Deletion of IFT20 exclusively in the RPE ablates primary cilia and leads to retinal degeneration

• Viola Kretschmer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Viola Kretschmer, Sandra Schneider

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Biology, Institute of Molecular Physiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

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• Sandra Schneider ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Viola Kretschmer, Sandra Schneider

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Biology, Institute of Molecular Physiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

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• Peter Andreas Matthiessen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ PAM and DR also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Faculty of Biology, Institute of Molecular Physiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

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• Dominik Reichert ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ PAM and DR also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Faculty of Biology, Institute of Molecular Physiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Nathan Hotaling,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Gunnar Glasßer,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany

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• Ingo Lieberwirth,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany

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• Kapil Bharti,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Rossella De Cegli,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli, Italy

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• Ivan Conte,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli, Italy, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

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• Emeline F. Nandrot,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Sorbonne Université, INSERM, CNRS, Institut de la Vision, Paris, France

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• Helen Louise May-Simera

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: may-simera@uni-mainz.de

  Affiliation Faculty of Biology, Institute of Molecular Physiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9477-4036

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