About the Authors

R. Guy Reeves

reeves@evolbio.mpg.de

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Jai A. Denton

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Fiammetta Santucci

Affiliation Independent Researcher, Hamburg, Germany

Jarosław Bryk

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Floyd A. Reed

Current address: Department of Biology, University of Hawai′i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai′i, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Competing Interests

None of the authors have any financial interests relating to genetically modified organisms. However it is possible that FAR and RGR may apply for a patent in this area at some point in the next year. Even in the event that they go ahead with the application this does not present a potential source of bias in the writing of the paper.