About the Authors

Diego Fontaneto

Contributed equally to this work with: Diego Fontaneto, Elisabeth A Herniou

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy

Elisabeth A Herniou

Contributed equally to this work with: Diego Fontaneto, Elisabeth A Herniou

Affiliations Division of Biology, Imperial College London, Ascot, United Kingdom , Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Ascot, United Kingdom

Chiara Boschetti

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Manuela Caprioli

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy

Giulio Melone

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy

Claudia Ricci

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy

Timothy G Barraclough

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: t.barraclough@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliations Division of Biology, Imperial College London, Ascot, United Kingdom , Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Ascot, United Kingdom , Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

DF, EAH, GM, CR, and TGB conceived and designed the experiments. DF, EAH, CB, and MC performed the experiments. DF, EAH, CB, and TGB analyzed the data. GM, CR, and TGB contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. DF, EAH, CR, and TGB wrote the paper.