About the Authors

Michael Eitel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

m.eitel@lmu.de (ME); woerheide@lmu.de (GW)

Affiliations Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Paleontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, Institut für Tierökologie und Zellbiologie, Ecology and Evolution, Hannover, Germany

Warren R. Francis

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Paleontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Frédérique Varoqueaux

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Jean Daraspe

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Electron Microscopy Facility, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Hans-Jürgen Osigus

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, Institut für Tierökologie und Zellbiologie, Ecology and Evolution, Hannover, Germany

Stefan Krebs

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Laboratory for Functional Genome Analysis (LAFUGA), Gene Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Sergio Vargas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Paleontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Helmut Blum

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Laboratory for Functional Genome Analysis (LAFUGA), Gene Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Gray A. Williams

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Swire Institute of Marine Science and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Bernd Schierwater

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, Institut für Tierökologie und Zellbiologie, Ecology and Evolution, Hannover, Germany, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics and Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Ecology & Evolution, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Gert Wörheide

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

m.eitel@lmu.de (ME); woerheide@lmu.de (GW)

Affiliations Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Paleontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns (SNSB)–Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.