About the Authors

Jürgen Dönitz

Contributed equally to this work with: Jürgen Dönitz, Daniela Grossmann

juergen.doenitz@bioinf.med.uni-goettingen.de

Affiliations Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Göttingen, Germany, Department of Bioinformatics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Daniela Grossmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Jürgen Dönitz, Daniela Grossmann

Affiliation Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Göttingen, Germany

Inga Schild

Affiliation Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Göttingen, Germany

Christian Schmitt-Engel

Affiliation Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Göttingen, Germany

Sven Bradler

Affiliation Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Göttingen, Germany

Nikola-Michael Prpic

Affiliation Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Göttingen, Germany

Gregor Bucher

Affiliation Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JD DG CSE GB. Performed the experiments: DG IS CSE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NMP. Wrote the paper: JD DG GB. Revised the definitions: SB.