About the Authors

Maxence Vieux-Rochas

Current address: National Research Center Frontiers in Genetics, School of Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland

Affiliation Evolution des Régulations Endocriniennes, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, UMR-7221, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Kamal Bouhali

Affiliation Evolution des Régulations Endocriniennes, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, UMR-7221, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Stefano Mantero

Current address: Istituto Clinico Humanitas IRCCS, Rozzano, Milano, Italy

Affiliation Molecular Biotechnology Center, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Giulia Garaffo

Affiliation Molecular Biotechnology Center, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Paolo Provero

Affiliation Molecular Biotechnology Center, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Simonetta Astigiano

Affiliation Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Azienda Ospedale Università San Martino, IST Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genova, Italy

Ottavia Barbieri

Affiliations Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Azienda Ospedale Università San Martino, IST Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genova, Italy, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Mariano F. Caratozzolo

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council, Bari, Italy

Apollonia Tullo

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council, Bari, Italy

Luisa Guerrini

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, University of Milano, Milano, Italy

Yvan Lallemand

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Department of Developmental Biology, Centre national de la recherche scientifique URA-2578, Paris, France

Benoît Robert

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Department of Developmental Biology, Centre national de la recherche scientifique URA-2578, Paris, France

Giovanni Levi

Contributed equally to this work with: Giovanni Levi, Giorgio R. Merlo

Affiliation Evolution des Régulations Endocriniennes, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, UMR-7221, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Giorgio R. Merlo

Contributed equally to this work with: Giovanni Levi, Giorgio R. Merlo

gmerlo@dti.telethon.it

Affiliations Molecular Biotechnology Center, University of Torino, Torino, Italy, Dulbecco Telethon Institute, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MV-R PP SA OB MFC AT YL BR GL GRM. Performed the experiments: MV-R KB SM GG SA OB LG MFC AT YL GL GRM. Analyzed the data: MV-R GG PP SA OB MFC AT YL BR GL GRM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GG PP OB LG MFC AT YL BR. Wrote the paper: MV-R PP OB YL BR GL GRM.