About the Authors

Lu Lu

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Samantha J. Lycett

Affiliation University of Glasgow, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Andrew J. Leigh Brown

A.Leigh-Brown@ed.ac.uk

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL SJL ALB. Analyzed the data: LL. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: LL SJL ALB.