About the Authors

Janet Chenevert

chenevert@obs-vlfr.fr

Affiliation Université Pierre et Marie Curie and CNRS, Developmental Biology Unit UMR7009, Villefranche-sur-mer, France

Gerard Pruliere

Affiliation Université Pierre et Marie Curie and CNRS, Developmental Biology Unit UMR7009, Villefranche-sur-mer, France

Hirokazu Ishii

Affiliation Frontiers of Innovative Research in Science and Technology (FIRST), Konan University, Kobe, Japan

Christian Sardet

Affiliation Université Pierre et Marie Curie and CNRS, Developmental Biology Unit UMR7009, Villefranche-sur-mer, France

Takahito Nishikata

Affiliations Frontiers of Innovative Research in Science and Technology (FIRST), Konan University, Kobe, Japan, Frontier Institute for Biomolecular Engineering Research (FIBER), Konan University, Kobe, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC GP CS TN. Performed the experiments: JC GP HI CS TN. Analyzed the data: JC GP HI TN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC CS TN. Wrote the paper: JC GP HI CS TN.