About the Authors

Hunter B Fraser

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hunter@alum.mit.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Philipp Khaitovich

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Joshua B Plotkin

Affiliation Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Svante Pääbo

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Michael B Eisen

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Genome Sciences Department, Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

HBF, PK, and JBP conceived and designed the experiments and analyses. PK performed the experiments. HBF analyzed the data. SP and MBE contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. HBF, PK, JBP, SP, and MBE wrote the paper.