About the Authors

Constance Ciaudo

Current address: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Biology, Chair of RNAi and Genome Integrity, Zurich, Switzerland.

Affiliations Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Biology, Chair of RNA biology, Zurich, Switzerland, Institut Curie, CNRS UMR3215, Paris, France

Florence Jay

Affiliations Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Biology, Chair of RNA biology, Zurich, Switzerland, Life Science Zurich Graduate School, Plant Sciences program, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Ikuhiro Okamoto

Current address: Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

Affiliation Institut Curie, CNRS UMR3215, Paris, France

Chong-Jian Chen

Affiliations Institut Curie, CNRS UMR3215, Paris, France, Institut Curie, Paris, France

Alexis Sarazin

Affiliation Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Biology, Chair of RNA biology, Zurich, Switzerland

Nicolas Servant

Affiliations Institut Curie, Paris, France, INSERM U900, Paris, France, Mines ParisTech, Fontainebleau, France

Emmanuel Barillot

Affiliations Institut Curie, Paris, France, INSERM U900, Paris, France, Mines ParisTech, Fontainebleau, France

Edith Heard

Affiliation Institut Curie, CNRS UMR3215, Paris, France

Olivier Voinnet

voinneto@ethz.ch

Affiliations Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Biology, Chair of RNA biology, Zurich, Switzerland, Life Science Zurich Graduate School, Plant Sciences program, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC OV. Performed the experiments: CC FJ IO. Analyzed the data: CC FJ CJC AS NS OV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EH EB. Wrote the paper: CC OV.