About the Authors

Prisca Feuerstein

Contributed equally to this work with: Prisca Feuerstein, Vincent Puard

Affiliations INRA, UMR85 Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France, Université de Tours, Tours, France, CNRS, UMR6175, Nouzilly, France

Vincent Puard

Contributed equally to this work with: Prisca Feuerstein, Vincent Puard

Affiliations INRA, UMR85 Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France, Université de Tours, Tours, France, CNRS, UMR6175, Nouzilly, France

Catherine Chevalier

Affiliation Plateforme Puces à ADN de Nantes, Institut de Recherche Thérapeutique de l’université de Nantes, Nantes, France

Raluca Teusan

Affiliation Plateforme Puces à ADN de Nantes, Institut de Recherche Thérapeutique de l’université de Nantes, Nantes, France

Veronique Cadoret

Affiliations INRA, UMR85 Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France, CNRS, UMR6175, Nouzilly, France, CHRU de Tours, Laboratoire de Biologie de la Reproduction, Tours, France

Fabrice Guerif

Affiliations INRA, UMR85 Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France, Université de Tours, Tours, France, CNRS, UMR6175, Nouzilly, France, CHRU de Tours, Laboratoire de Biologie de la Reproduction, Tours, France

Remi Houlgatte

Affiliation Plateforme Puces à ADN de Nantes, Institut de Recherche Thérapeutique de l’université de Nantes, Nantes, France

Dominique Royere

royere@med.univ-tours.fr

Affiliations INRA, UMR85 Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France, Université de Tours, Tours, France, CNRS, UMR6175, Nouzilly, France, CHRU de Tours, Laboratoire de Biologie de la Reproduction, Tours, France

Competing Interests

P.F. was supported by an INRA/Ferring SA fellowship. V.P. was supported by an INRA/Merck Serono fellowship. These fellowships were shared between public funding (Institut National de Recherche Agronomique) and private funding without any interference with research programm. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PF VP FG RH DR. Performed the experiments: PF VP CC RT VC. Analyzed the data: PF VP FG RH DR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PF VP CC RT RH. Wrote the paper: PF VP RH DR.