About the Authors

Aines Castro-Prieto

Affiliation Evolutionary Genetics Research Group, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Bettina Wachter

Affiliation Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Joerg Melzheimer

Affiliation Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Susanne Thalwitzer

Affiliation Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Heribert Hofer

Affiliation Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Simone Sommer

sommer@izw-berlin.de

Affiliation Evolutionary Genetics Research Group, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC BW SS. Performed the experiments: AC. Analyzed the data: AC BW SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BW JM ST HH SS. Wrote the paper: AC BW SS.