About the Authors

Annegret Werzner

Current address: DKMS, German Bone Marrow Donor Center, Tübingen, Germany

Affiliation Section of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biology II, University of Munich, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

Pavlos Pavlidis

Current address: The Exelixis Lab, Scientific Computing Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany

Affiliation Section of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biology II, University of Munich, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

Lino Ometto

Current address: Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, S. Michele all’Adige (TN), Italy

Affiliation Section of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biology II, University of Munich, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

Wolfgang Stephan

Affiliation Section of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biology II, University of Munich, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

Stefan Laurent

laurent@bio.lmu.de

Affiliation Section of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biology II, University of Munich, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WS. Performed the experiments: AW LO. Analyzed the data: AW PP SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PP SL. Wrote the paper: AW WS SL.