About the Authors

Agata Kolodziejczyk

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Xuejun Sun

Current address: Department of Experimental Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Affiliation Life Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ian A. Meinertzhagen

Affiliation Life Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Dick R. Nässel

dnassel@zoologi.su.se

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IM DN AK. Performed the experiments: AK XS. Analyzed the data: IM DN AK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DN. Wrote the paper: IM DN.