About the Authors

Zhen Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhen Shi, Gabriel Hayes

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gabriel Hayes

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhen Shi, Gabriel Hayes

Current address: Cell Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gary Ruvkun

ruvkun@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZS GH GR. Performed the experiments: ZS GH GR. Analyzed the data: ZS GH GR. Wrote the paper: ZS GH GR.