About the Authors

Matthias Schrader

Affiliation Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Torsten Hauffe

Affiliation Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Zhijie Zhang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

George M. Davis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Fred Jopp

Affiliation Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Justin V. Remais

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Thomas Wilke

tom.wilke@allzool.bio.uni-giessen.de

Affiliation Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TW GMD JVR MS. Performed the experiments: TW MS TH ZZ. Analyzed the data: TW MS TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMD FJ. Wrote the paper: TW MS.