About the Authors

Jürgen Hench

Contributed equally to this work with: Jürgen Hench, Johan Henriksson

Current address: Dept. of Neuropathology, Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Affiliations Dept. of Biosciences and Nutrition & Center for Biosciences, Karolinska Institutet, Hälsovägen 7, Novum, SE-141 83, Huddinge, Sweden, School of Life Sciences, Södertörns Högskola, Huddinge, Sweden

Johan Henriksson

Contributed equally to this work with: Jürgen Hench, Johan Henriksson

Current address: European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Affiliations Dept. of Biosciences and Nutrition & Center for Biosciences, Karolinska Institutet, Hälsovägen 7, Novum, SE-141 83, Huddinge, Sweden, School of Life Sciences, Södertörns Högskola, Huddinge, Sweden

Akram M. Abou-Zied

Current address: Dept. of Zoology, Division of Cell Technology & Genetics, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

Affiliations Dept. of Biosciences and Nutrition & Center for Biosciences, Karolinska Institutet, Hälsovägen 7, Novum, SE-141 83, Huddinge, Sweden, School of Life Sciences, Södertörns Högskola, Huddinge, Sweden

Martin Lüppert

Affiliations Dept. of Biosciences and Nutrition & Center for Biosciences, Karolinska Institutet, Hälsovägen 7, Novum, SE-141 83, Huddinge, Sweden, School of Life Sciences, Södertörns Högskola, Huddinge, Sweden

Johan Dethlefsen

Affiliations Dept. of Biosciences and Nutrition & Center for Biosciences, Karolinska Institutet, Hälsovägen 7, Novum, SE-141 83, Huddinge, Sweden, School of Life Sciences, Södertörns Högskola, Huddinge, Sweden

Krishanu Mukherjee

Current address: The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, Saint Augustine, United States of America

Affiliations Dept. of Biosciences and Nutrition & Center for Biosciences, Karolinska Institutet, Hälsovägen 7, Novum, SE-141 83, Huddinge, Sweden, School of Life Sciences, Södertörns Högskola, Huddinge, Sweden

Yong Guang Tong

Current address: Dept. of Basic Sciences, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Affiliations Dept. of Biosciences and Nutrition & Center for Biosciences, Karolinska Institutet, Hälsovägen 7, Novum, SE-141 83, Huddinge, Sweden, School of Life Sciences, Södertörns Högskola, Huddinge, Sweden

Lois Tang

Affiliations Dept. of Biosciences and Nutrition & Center for Biosciences, Karolinska Institutet, Hälsovägen 7, Novum, SE-141 83, Huddinge, Sweden, School of Life Sciences, Södertörns Högskola, Huddinge, Sweden

Umesh Gangishetti

Current address: Dept. of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation Dept. of Biosciences and Nutrition & Center for Biosciences, Karolinska Institutet, Hälsovägen 7, Novum, SE-141 83, Huddinge, Sweden

David L. Baillie

Affiliation Dept. of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada

Thomas R. Bürglin

thomas.buerglin@unibas.ch

Current address: Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50/70, CH-4056, Basel, Switzerland

Affiliations Dept. of Biosciences and Nutrition & Center for Biosciences, Karolinska Institutet, Hälsovägen 7, Novum, SE-141 83, Huddinge, Sweden, School of Life Sciences, Södertörns Högskola, Huddinge, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: J. Hench J. Henriksson TRB. Performed the experiments: J. Hench AAZ JD KM YGT UG TRB. Analyzed the data: J. Hench J. Henriksson ML JD LT TRB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: J. Henriksson DLB. Wrote the paper: J. Hench J. Henriksson TRB.