Broken replication forks trigger heritable DNA breaks in the terminus of a circular chromosome

• Anurag Kumar Sinha ,

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

  * E-mail: 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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6051-4930

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Bénédicte Michel

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

  * E-mail: 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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3203-3275

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