About the Authors

Taishi Yoshii

Affiliation University of Regensburg, Institute of Zoology, Regensburg, Germany

Margaret Ahmad

Affiliation Université Paris VI, PCMP, Paris, France

Charlotte Helfrich-Förster

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: charlotte.foerster@biologie.uni-regensburg.de

Affiliation University of Regensburg, Institute of Zoology, Regensburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

MA and CH-F conceived and designed the experiments. TY performed the experiments and analyzed the data. CH-F wrote the paper.