About the Authors

Lydia Steiner

Contributed equally to this work with: Lydia Steiner, Lydia Hopp

Affiliations Junior Professorship for Computational EvoDevo, Institute of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Lydia Hopp

Contributed equally to this work with: Lydia Steiner, Lydia Hopp

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Henry Wirth

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Jörg Galle

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Hans Binder

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Sonja J. Prohaska

Affiliations Junior Professorship for Computational EvoDevo, Institute of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Thimo Rohlf

rohlf@izbi.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG HB SJP. Analyzed the data: LS LH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LS LH HW. Wrote the paper: LS LH JG HB TR SJP. Coordinated the project: JG TR. Introduced the segmentation procedure: SJP.