About the Authors

Robert J. Luallen

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, United States of America

Aaron W. Reinke

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, United States of America

Linda Tong

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, United States of America

Michael R. Botts

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, United States of America

Marie-Anne Félix

Affiliation École Normale Supérieure, Institut de Biologie de l’ENS (IBENS), CNRS-INSERM, Paris, France

Emily R. Troemel

etroemel@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: AWR was funded by a Life Sciences Research Foundation fellowship sponsored by Monsanto Company. Monsanto Company played no role in this study, including experimental design and data analysis. The other authors declare no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RJL AWR MRB MAF. Performed the experiments: RJL LT MRB. Analyzed the data: RJL AWR LT. Wrote the paper: RJL AWR ERT. Discovered N. displodere: RJL MAF.