About the Authors

Fabian Staubach

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Anna Lorenc

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Philipp W. Messer

Affiliation Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Kun Tang

Affiliation CAS-MPG Partner Institute and Key Laboratory for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Dmitri A. Petrov

Affiliation Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Diethard Tautz

tautz@evolbio.mpg.de

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FS DT. Performed the experiments: FS. Analyzed the data: FS AL PWM DAP DT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KT. Wrote the paper: FS DT.