About the Authors

Deniz F. Erezyilmaz

Contributed equally to this work with: Deniz F. Erezyilmaz, Alex Hayward

deniz.erezyilmaz@stonybrook.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Alex Hayward

Contributed equally to this work with: Deniz F. Erezyilmaz, Alex Hayward

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala Biomedical Centre, Uppsala, Sweden

Yan Huang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Jordi Paps

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

Zoltan Acs

Affiliation Kaposvar University, Faculty of Animal Science, Kaposvar, Hungary

Juan A. Delgado

Affiliation Departamento de Zoologia, Facultad de Biologia, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

Francisco Collantes

Affiliation Departamento de Zoologia, Facultad de Biologia, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

Jeyaraney Kathirithamby

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DE JK AH JP. Performed the experiments: DE JK AH JP ZA JAD FC YH. Analyzed the data: DE JK AH JP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZA JAD FC JP. Wrote the paper: DE AH JK. Critical analysis of manuscript drafts: DE JK AH JP ZA JAD FC YH.