About the Authors

Thi Mong Diep Nguyen

Affiliations INRA-CNRS, Unité Mixte de Recherche de Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, F-37380 Nouzilly, France, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France

François Seigneurin

Affiliation SYSAAF, F-37380 Nouzilly, France

Pascal Froment

Affiliation INRA-CNRS, Unité Mixte de Recherche de Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, F-37380 Nouzilly, France

Yves Combarnous

Affiliation INRA-CNRS, Unité Mixte de Recherche de Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, F-37380 Nouzilly, France

Elisabeth Blesbois

Elisabeth.Blesbois@tours.inra.fr

Affiliation INRA-CNRS, Unité Mixte de Recherche de Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, F-37380 Nouzilly, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TMDN EB. Performed the experiments: TMDN FS. Analyzed the data: TMDN EB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TMDN PF YC. Wrote the paper: TMDN EB YC PF.