About the Authors

Smita Amarnath

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Amarnath, Trupti Kawli

smita-nms@mail.utexas.edu

Current address: Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Trupti Kawli

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Amarnath, Trupti Kawli

Current address: Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Smita Mohanty

Affiliation Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Narayanaswamy Srinivasan

Affiliation Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Vidyanand Nanjundiah

Affiliation Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA TK VN. Performed the experiments: SA TK SM. Analyzed the data: SA TK SM NS VN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VN NS. Wrote the paper: SA TK VN NS.