About the Authors

Jacqueline Vieira

Affiliation Université Paris VI, Paris, France

Alex R. Jones

Affiliation Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre and Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Antoine Danon

Affiliation Université Paris VI, Paris, France

Michiyo Sakuma

Affiliation Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre and Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Nathalie Hoang

Affiliation Université Paris VI, Paris, France

David Robles

Affiliation Université Paris VI, Paris, France

Shirley Tait

Affiliation Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre and Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Derren J. Heyes

Affiliation Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre and Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Marie Picot

Affiliation Institut de Neurobiologie Alfred Fessard, CNRS UPR 2216 (NGI), Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Taishi Yoshii

Affiliation Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Charlotte Helfrich-Förster

Affiliation University of Würzburg, Biocentre, Neurobiology and Genetics, Würzburg, Germany

Guillaume Soubigou

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Transcriptome and Epigenome Platform, Genomes and Genetics Department, Paris, France

Jean-Yves Coppee

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Transcriptome and Epigenome Platform, Genomes and Genetics Department, Paris, France

André Klarsfeld

Affiliation Institut de Neurobiologie Alfred Fessard, CNRS UPR 2216 (NGI), Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Francois Rouyer

Affiliation Institut de Neurobiologie Alfred Fessard, CNRS UPR 2216 (NGI), Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Nigel S. Scrutton

Affiliation Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre and Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Margaret Ahmad

margaret.ahmad@upmc.fr

Affiliations Université Paris VI, Paris, France, Penn State University, Media, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JV ARJ AD MS NH DR ST DJH MP TY GS JYC AK FR NS MA. Performed the experiments: JV ARJ AD MS NH DR ST DJH MP TY GS JYC AK MA. Analyzed the data: JV ARJ AD MS NH DR ST DJH MP TY GS JYC AK FR NS MA CH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GS JYC. Wrote the paper: JV ARJ AD GS JYC FR NS MA CH.