About the Authors

Hervé Philippe

herve.philippe@umontreal.ca

Affiliation Département de Biochimie, Centre Robert-Cedergren, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Henner Brinkmann

Affiliation Département de Biochimie, Centre Robert-Cedergren, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Dennis V. Lavrov

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

D. Timothy J. Littlewood

Affiliation Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Michael Manuel

Affiliation Université Paris 6, UMR 7138 "Systématique, Adaptation, Evolution" UPMC CNRS IRD MHNH, Paris, France

Gert Wörheide

Affiliations Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany, GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany

Denis Baurain

Affiliation Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.