About the Authors

Matthias Benjamin Barth

benjamin.barth@zoologie.uni-halle.de

Affiliations Institute of Biology, Department of Zoology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, DNA-Laboratory, Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Robin Frederik Alexander Moritz

Affiliations Institute of Biology, Department of Zoology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Frank Bernhard Kraus

Affiliations Institute of Biology, Department of Zoology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Halle, Halle (Saale), Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MBB RFAM FBK. Performed the experiments: MBB. Analyzed the data: MBB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RFAM. Wrote the paper: MBB RFAM FBK.