About the Authors

Guillaume Sapriel

Affiliation Biomineralization and Morphogenesis Group, CNRS UMR-8186, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Michelle Quinet

Affiliation Biomineralization and Morphogenesis Group, CNRS UMR-8186, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Marc Heijde

Current address: University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Affiliation Biomineralization and Morphogenesis Group, CNRS UMR-8186, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Laurent Jourdren

Affiliation Ecole Normale Supérieure, IFR36, Plate-forme Transcriptome, Paris, France

Véronique Tanty

Affiliation Ecole Normale Supérieure, IFR36, Plate-forme Transcriptome, Paris, France

Guangzuo Luo

Current address: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Affiliation Biomineralization and Morphogenesis Group, CNRS UMR-8186, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Stéphane Le Crom

Affiliation Ecole Normale Supérieure, IFR36, Plate-forme Transcriptome, Paris, France

Pascal Jean Lopez

pjlopez@biologie.ens.fr

Affiliation Biomineralization and Morphogenesis Group, CNRS UMR-8186, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GS MH GL PJL. Performed the experiments: GS MQ VT PJL. Analyzed the data: GS LJ SLC PJL. Wrote the paper: PJL.