About the Authors

Daniela Häming

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniela Häming, Marcos Simoes-Costa

Affiliation Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Marcos Simoes-Costa

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniela Häming, Marcos Simoes-Costa

Affiliation Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Benjamin Uy

Affiliation Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Jonathan Valencia

Affiliation Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Tatjana Sauka-Spengler

Affiliation Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Marianne Bronner-Fraser

mbronner@caltech.edu

Affiliation Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSC TSS MBF. Performed the experiments: DH MSC BU JV MBF. Analyzed the data: DH MSC TSS MBF. Wrote the paper: DH MSC MBF.