About the Authors

Julie Hull-Thompson

Contributed equally to this work with: Julie Hull-Thompson, Julien Muffat

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Julien Muffat

Contributed equally to this work with: Julie Hull-Thompson, Julien Muffat

Affiliation Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Diego Sanchez

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Fisiología, Instituto de Biología y Genética Molecular, Universidad de Valladolid-CSIC, Valladolid, Spain

David W. Walker

Current address: Department of Physiological Science, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Seymour Benzer

Affiliation Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Maria D. Ganfornina

opabinia@ibgm.uva.es (MDG); henri_jasper@urmc.rochester.edu (HJ)

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Fisiología, Instituto de Biología y Genética Molecular, Universidad de Valladolid-CSIC, Valladolid, Spain

Heinrich Jasper

opabinia@ibgm.uva.es (MDG); henri_jasper@urmc.rochester.edu (HJ)

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JHT JM SB MDG HJ. Performed the experiments: JHT JM DS MDG HJ. Analyzed the data: JHT JM DS DWW MDG HJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DWW SB MDG. Wrote the paper: JHT HJ.