About the Authors

Sophie von Merten

sophievonmerten@gmail.com

Affiliation Department Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Svenja Hoier

Affiliation Department Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Christine Pfeifle

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine Pfeifle, Diethard Tautz

Affiliation Department Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Diethard Tautz

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine Pfeifle, Diethard Tautz

Affiliation Department Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SVM SH CP DT. Performed the experiments: SH CP. Analyzed the data: SVM SH. Wrote the paper: SVM.