About the Authors

Andrew J. Childs

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew J. Childs, Gillian Cowan

a.childs@ed.ac.uk

Affiliation Medical Research Council Human Reproductive Sciences Unit, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Gillian Cowan

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew J. Childs, Gillian Cowan

Affiliation Medical Research Council Human Reproductive Sciences Unit, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Hazel L. Kinnell

Affiliation Medical Research Council Human Reproductive Sciences Unit, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Richard A. Anderson

Affiliation Division of Reproductive and Developmental Sciences, Centre for Reproductive Biology, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Philippa T. K. Saunders

Affiliation Medical Research Council Human Reproductive Sciences Unit, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AJC GC RAA PTKS. Performed the experiments: AJC GC HLK. Analyzed the data: AJC GC RAA PTKS. Wrote the paper: AJC GC RAA PTKS.