About the Authors

Philipp Khaitovich

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

Gunter Weiss

Affiliations Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, WE Informatik, Bioinformatik, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Michael Lachmann

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

Ines Hellmann

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

Wolfgang Enard

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

Bjoern Muetzel

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

Ute Wirkner

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Wilhelm Ansorge

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Svante Pääbo

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: paabo@eva.mpg.de

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no conflicts of interest exist.

Author Contributions

PK, GW, ML, WE, and SP conceived and designed the experiments. PK performed the experiments. PK, GW, ML, IH, and BM analyzed the data. IH, UW, WA, and SP contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. PK, ML, and SP wrote the paper.