Pre-cuticle DPY-6 acts as a blueprint for aECM periodic organization in C. elegans

• Sophie Mazzoli,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Aix Marseille Univ, INSERM, CNRS, CIML, Turing Centre for Living Systems, Marseille, France

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6516-2064

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• Thomas Sonntag,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Aix Marseille Univ, INSERM, CNRS, CIML, Turing Centre for Living Systems, Marseille, France

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7747-2515

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• Emma Cadena,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Aix Marseille Univ, INSERM, CNRS, CIML, Turing Centre for Living Systems, Marseille, France

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• Claire Valotteau,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Aix-Marseille Univ, INSERM, DyNaMo, Turing Centre for Living Systems‌‌, Marseille, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1436-8506

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• Susanna K. Birnbaum,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States of America

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• Meera V. Sundaram,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2940-8750

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• Nathalie Pujol

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pujol@ciml.univ-mrs.fr

  Affiliation Aix Marseille Univ, INSERM, CNRS, CIML, Turing Centre for Living Systems, Marseille, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8889-3197

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