About the Authors

Fabian Runkel

Current address: Anatomie und Molekulare Neurobiologie, Institut für Anatomie am Universitätsklinikum Münster, Münster, Germany

Affiliation Anatomisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Maik Hintze

Affiliations Anatomisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Studiengang Molekulare Biomedizin, LIMES, Bonn, Germany

Sebastian Griesing

Affiliations Anatomisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Studiengang Molekulare Biomedizin, LIMES, Bonn, Germany

Marion Michels

Affiliation Anatomisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Birgit Blanck

Affiliation Anatomisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Kiyoko Fukami

Affiliation Laboratory of Genome and Biosignal, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Hachioji-city, Tokyo, Japan

Jean-Louis Guénet

Affiliation Département de Biologie du Développement, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Thomas Franz

thfranz@uni-bonn.de

Affiliation Anatomisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FR MH TF. Performed the experiments: FR TF SG MH MM BB. Analyzed the data: TF FR MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KF JLG. Wrote the paper: TF. Critically revised the manuscript: MH FR SG JLG KF.