About the Authors

Archana D. Siddam

Contributed equally to this work with: Archana D. Siddam, Carole Gautier-Courteille

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States of America

Carole Gautier-Courteille

Contributed equally to this work with: Archana D. Siddam, Carole Gautier-Courteille

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

Affiliation Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1, CNRS UMR6290, Rennes, France

Linette Perez-Campos

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Cartago, Costa Rica, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States of America

Deepti Anand

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States of America

Atul Kakrana

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States of America

Christine A. Dang

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States of America

Vincent Legagneux

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1, CNRS UMR6290, Rennes, France

Agnès Méreau

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1, CNRS UMR6290, Rennes, France

Justine Viet

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1, CNRS UMR6290, Rennes, France

Jeffrey M. Gross

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

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Luc Paillard

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

salil@udel.edu (SL); luc.paillard@univ-rennes1.fr (LP)

‡ SAL and LP are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1, CNRS UMR6290, Rennes, France

Salil A. Lachke

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

salil@udel.edu (SL); luc.paillard@univ-rennes1.fr (LP)

‡ SAL and LP are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States of America, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.