About the Authors

Frédéric Relaix

Contributed equally to this work with: Frédéric Relaix, Josiane Demignon

frelaix@gmail.com (FR); margab@pasteur.fr (MB); pascal.maire@inserm.fr (PM)

Affiliations UPMC Paris 06, UMR-S 787, Paris, France, INSERM, Avenir Team, Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France, Institut de Myologie, Paris, France

Josiane Demignon

Contributed equally to this work with: Frédéric Relaix, Josiane Demignon

Affiliation Institut Cochin, INSERM U1016, CNRS (UMR 8104), Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

Christine Laclef

Current address: Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement, Paris, France

Affiliation Institut Cochin, INSERM U1016, CNRS (UMR 8104), Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

Julien Pujol

Affiliation Institut Cochin, INSERM U1016, CNRS (UMR 8104), Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

Marc Santolini

Affiliation Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, ENS, Paris, France

Claire Niro

Affiliation Institut Cochin, INSERM U1016, CNRS (UMR 8104), Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

Mounia Lagha

Current address: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Affiliation CNRS URA 2375, Department of Developmental Biology, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Didier Rocancourt

Affiliation CNRS URA 2375, Department of Developmental Biology, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Margaret Buckingham

frelaix@gmail.com (FR); margab@pasteur.fr (MB); pascal.maire@inserm.fr (PM)

Affiliation CNRS URA 2375, Department of Developmental Biology, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Pascal Maire

frelaix@gmail.com (FR); margab@pasteur.fr (MB); pascal.maire@inserm.fr (PM)

Affiliation Institut Cochin, INSERM U1016, CNRS (UMR 8104), Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FR MB PM. Performed the experiments: FR JD CL JP MS CN ML DR PM. Analyzed the data: FR MB JD JP MS CL CN PM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FR MB PM. Wrote the paper: FR MB PM.