About the Authors

Rosa Tarrío

Affiliations Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, CIBERER, Genome Medicine Group, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Francisco J. Ayala

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Francisco Rodríguez-Trelles

franciscojose.rodrigueztrelles@uab.cat

Affiliations Grup de Biologia Evolutiva, Departament de Genètica i de Microbiologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RT FR-T. Performed the experiments: RT FR-T. Analyzed the data: RT FJA FR-T. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RT FR-T. Wrote the paper: RT FJA FR-T.