About the Authors

Sebastian Hess

shess@uni-bonn.de

Affiliation Cologne Biocenter, Botanical Institute, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Nicole Sausen

Affiliation Cologne Biocenter, Botanical Institute, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Michael Melkonian

Affiliation Cologne Biocenter, Botanical Institute, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH MM. Performed the experiments: SH. Analyzed the data: SH MM. Wrote the paper: SH. Refined sequence alignment: NS Ran phylogenetic analyses: NS Designed Figure 1: NS Critically the manuscript: MM.