About the Authors

Susanne Horn

horn@eva.mpg.de

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Walter Durka

Affiliation Department for Community Ecology, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Halle, Germany

Ronny Wolf

Affiliation Department for Molecular Evolution and Animal Systematics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Aslak Ermala

Affiliation Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland

Annegret Stubbe

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Germany

Michael Stubbe

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Germany

Michael Hofreiter

Current address: Department of Biology, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH MH. Performed the experiments: SH. Analyzed the data: SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WD RW AE AS MS MH. Wrote the paper: SH WD MH.