About the Authors

Christian Renicke

Affiliation Department of Biology/Genetics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Roberta Spadaccini

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze e tecnologie, Universita' degli studi del Sannio, Benevento, Italy

Christof Taxis

taxis@biologie.uni-marburg.de

Affiliation Department of Biology/Genetics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CR RS CT. Performed the experiments: CR RS CT. Analyzed the data: CR RS CT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CR CT. Wrote the manuscript: CR RS CT.