About the Authors

Ansgar Zoch

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Age Research—FLI Jena, Beutenbergstr. 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany

Steffen Mayerl

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Age Research—FLI Jena, Beutenbergstr. 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany

Alexander Schulz

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Age Research—FLI Jena, Beutenbergstr. 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany

Thomas Greither

Affiliation Center for Reproductive Medicine and Andrology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Ernst-Grube-Str. 40, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany

Lucien Frappart

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Age Research—FLI Jena, Beutenbergstr. 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany

Juliane Rübsam

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Age Research—FLI Jena, Beutenbergstr. 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany

Heike Heuer

Affiliations Leibniz Institute for Age Research—FLI Jena, Beutenbergstr. 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany, Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Auf’m Hennekamp 50, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany

Marco Giovannini

Affiliation Center for Neural Tumor Research and Section on Genetics of Hereditary Ear Disorders, House Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90057, United States of America

Helen Morrison

helen@fli-leibniz.de

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Age Research—FLI Jena, Beutenbergstr. 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AZ HM TG SM. Performed the experiments: AZ TG SM AS JR LF. Analyzed the data: AZ HM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HH MG. Wrote the paper: AZ HM.