About the Authors

Emmanuel Mongin

Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel Mongin, Thomas O. Auer

Affiliation McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Thomas O. Auer

Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel Mongin, Thomas O. Auer

Affiliation Centre for Organismal Studies COS, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Franck Bourrat

Affiliation MSNC INRA Group, UPR2197 DEPSN Institut Fessard, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Franziska Gruhl

Affiliation Centre for Organismal Studies COS, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Ken Dewar

Affiliation McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, Montreal, Canada

Mathieu Blanchette

blanchem@mcb.mcgill.ca (MB); Jochen.Wittbrodt@COS.uni-Heidelberg.de (JW); Laurence.Ettwiller@cos.uni-heidelberg.de (LE)

Affiliation McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Joachim Wittbrodt

blanchem@mcb.mcgill.ca (MB); Jochen.Wittbrodt@COS.uni-Heidelberg.de (JW); Laurence.Ettwiller@cos.uni-heidelberg.de (LE)

Affiliations Centre for Organismal Studies COS, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology KIT, Institute for Toxicology and Genetics, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

Laurence Ettwiller

blanchem@mcb.mcgill.ca (MB); Jochen.Wittbrodt@COS.uni-Heidelberg.de (JW); Laurence.Ettwiller@cos.uni-heidelberg.de (LE)

Affiliation Centre for Organismal Studies COS, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Emmanuel Mongin was partially funded by genome Quebec during the period of research outlined in this paper. The commercial funder was not involved in any aspects of the research and applied no restrictions. No patents have been placed on the research outlined in this paper. The involvement of the funder does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TOA LE EM JW MB. Performed the experiments: TOA FG LE EM. Analyzed the data: EM TOA FB FG MB JW LE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB KD. Wrote the paper: TOA FG LE EM FB JW MB.