About the Authors

Anna Maria Fiore-Donno

afiore-donno6@infomaniak.ch

Affiliation Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Akiko Kamono

Affiliation The Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Marianne Meyer

Affiliation Le Bayet, Rognaix, France

Martin Schnittler

Affiliation Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Manabu Fukui

Affiliation The Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Thomas Cavalier-Smith

Affiliation Zoology Department, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMF-D MM. Performed the experiments: AMF-D AK. Analyzed the data: AMF-D. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS MF TC-S. Wrote the paper: AMF-D. Proofread the manuscript: AK MM MS MF TC-S.