About the Authors

Arild Husby

arild.husby@ebc.uu.se

Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Department of Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Marcel E. Visser

Affiliation Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Heteren, The Netherlands

Loeske E. B. Kruuk

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: AH MEV LEBK. Analyzed the data: AH. Wrote the paper: AH MEV LEBK.