About the Authors

Anne Averdam

Contributed equally to this work with: Anne Averdam, Beatrix Petersen

Affiliation Department of Primate Genetics, German Primate Centre, Göttingen, Germany

Beatrix Petersen

Contributed equally to this work with: Anne Averdam, Beatrix Petersen

Affiliation Department of Primate Genetics, German Primate Centre, Göttingen, Germany

Cornelia Rosner

Affiliation Department of Primate Genetics, German Primate Centre, Göttingen, Germany

Jennifer Neff

Affiliation Department of Primate Genetics, German Primate Centre, Göttingen, Germany

Christian Roos

Affiliations Department of Primate Genetics, German Primate Centre, Göttingen, Germany, Gene Bank of Primates, German Primate Centre, Göttingen, Germany

Manfred Eberle

Affiliation Department of Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, German Primate Centre, Göttingen, Germany

Fabienne Aujard

Affiliation Adaptive Mechanisms and Evolution, UMR CNRS/MNHN 7179, Brunoy, France

Claudia Münch

Affiliation Institute for Human Genetics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Werner Schempp

Affiliation Institute for Human Genetics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Mary Carrington

Affiliation Cancer and Inflammation Program, Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Takashi Shiina

Affiliation Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan

Hidetoshi Inoko

Affiliation Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan

Florian Knaust

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Penny Coggill

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Harminder Sehra

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Stephan Beck

Affiliation University College London Cancer Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Laurent Abi-Rached

Affiliation Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Richard Reinhardt

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Lutz Walter

lwalter@gwdg.de

Affiliations Department of Primate Genetics, German Primate Centre, Göttingen, Germany, Gene Bank of Primates, German Primate Centre, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LW. Performed the experiments: AA BP CR JN CM WS MC TS FK PC LAR. Analyzed the data: AA BP CR JN CR CM WS MC TS HI HS SB LAR RR LW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CR ME FA. Wrote the paper: SB LAR LW.