About the Authors

Dietrich Gotzek

Contributed equally to this work with: Dietrich Gotzek, Hugh M. Robertson

gotzekd@si.edu

Current address: Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Hugh M. Robertson

Contributed equally to this work with: Dietrich Gotzek, Hugh M. Robertson

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Yannick Wurm

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

DeWayne Shoemaker

Affiliation Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DG HMR DS. Performed the experiments: DG HMR YW DS. Analyzed the data: DG HMR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW DS. Wrote the paper: DG HMR.