About the Authors
- Nico Posnien
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Contributed equally to this work with: Nico Posnien, Victor Zeng
* E-mail: nposnie@gwdg.de (NP); extavour@oeb.harvard.edu (CGE)
Affiliation Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach-Institute for Zoology and Anthropology, Department of Developmental Biology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, GZMB Ernst-Caspari-Haus, Göttingen, Germany
- Victor Zeng
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Contributed equally to this work with: Nico Posnien, Victor Zeng
Current address: Stylux Incorporated, Atkinson, New Hampshire, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Evelyn E. Schwager
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Affiliations Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Matthias Pechmann
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Affiliation Cologne Biocenter, Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Maarten Hilbrant
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Affiliation Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Joseph D. Keefe
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Affiliation Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Wim G. M. Damen
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
- Nikola-Michael Prpic
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Affiliation Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach-Institute for Zoology and Anthropology, Department of Developmental Biology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, GZMB Ernst-Caspari-Haus, Göttingen, Germany
- Alistair P. McGregor
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Affiliation Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Cassandra G. Extavour
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* E-mail: nposnie@gwdg.de (NP); extavour@oeb.harvard.edu (CGE)
Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
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Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: APM CGE NMP NP WGMD. Performed the experiments: NP VZ. Analyzed the data: CGE JDK MP NMP NP VZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CGE EES MH MP WGMD. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: NMP NP CGE. Participated in revising the manuscript critically for important intellectual content: APM EES MH CGE JDK MP NMP NP VZ WGMD.