About the Authors

Veronika Wallkamm

Contributed equally to this work with: Veronika Wallkamm, Rene Dörlich

Affiliation Zoological Institute, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Rene Dörlich

Contributed equally to this work with: Veronika Wallkamm, Rene Dörlich

Affiliation Institute of Applied Physics and Insitute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Karolin Rahm

Affiliation Zoological Institute, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Tina Klessing

Affiliation Zoological Institute, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Gerd Ulrich Nienhaus

Affiliations Institute of Applied Physics and Insitute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Doris Wedlich

Affiliation Zoological Institute, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Dietmar Gradl

dietmar.gradl@kit.edu

Affiliation Zoological Institute, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VW RD KR GUN DW DG. Performed the experiments: VW RD TK KR DG. Analyzed the data: VW RD GUN DW DG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VW RD GUN DW DG. Wrote the paper: VW RD GUN DW DG.