About the Authors

Anurag Kumar Sinha

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

anurag.sinha@bio.ku.dk (AKS); benedicte.michel@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr (BM)

Current address: Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Affiliation Bacterial DNA stability, Genome biology department, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Christophe Possoz

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Evolution and maintenance of circular chromosomes, Genome biology department, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Adeline Durand

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bacterial DNA stability, Genome biology department, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Jean-Michel Desfontaines

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Evolution and maintenance of circular chromosomes, Genome biology department, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

François-Xavier Barre

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Evolution and maintenance of circular chromosomes, Genome biology department, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

David R. F. Leach

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Bénédicte Michel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

anurag.sinha@bio.ku.dk (AKS); benedicte.michel@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr (BM)

Affiliation Bacterial DNA stability, Genome biology department, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.