About the Authors

Floriane Plard

Affiliation Laboratoire “Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive,” Unité Mixte de Recherche 5558, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France

Jean-Michel Gaillard

jean-michel.gaillard@univ-lyon1.fr

Affiliation Laboratoire “Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive,” Unité Mixte de Recherche 5558, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France

Tim Coulson

Affiliation Department of Zoology, The Tinbergen Building, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

A. J. Mark Hewison

Affiliation INRA, UR035 CEFS, B.P. 52627, Castanet-Tolosan cedex, France

Daniel Delorme

Affiliation Centre National d'Études et de Recherches Appliquées Cervidés-Sangliers, Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage, Paris, France

Claude Warnant

Affiliation Centre National d'Études et de Recherches Appliquées Cervidés-Sangliers, Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage, Paris, France

Christophe Bonenfant

Affiliation Laboratoire “Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive,” Unité Mixte de Recherche 5558, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: JMG TC MH CB FP. Performed the experiments: DD CW. Analyzed the data: FP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMG TC MH CB FP DD CW. Wrote the paper: JMG TC MH CB FP DD CW.