About the Authors

Hongying Wei

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongying Wei, Hanzey Yasar

Affiliation University of Kassel, FB 10, Biology, Animal Physiology, Kassel, Germany

Hanzey Yasar

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongying Wei, Hanzey Yasar

Affiliation University of Kassel, FB 10, Biology, Animal Physiology, Kassel, Germany

Nico W. Funk

Affiliation University of Kassel, FB 10, Biology, Animal Physiology, Kassel, Germany

Maria Giese

Affiliation University of Kassel, FB 10, Biology, Animal Physiology, Kassel, Germany

El-Sayed Baz

Affiliation University of Kassel, FB 10, Biology, Animal Physiology, Kassel, Germany

Monika Stengl

stengl@uni-kassel.de

Affiliation University of Kassel, FB 10, Biology, Animal Physiology, Kassel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS HW HY NWF MG ESB. Performed the experiments: HW HY MG. Analyzed the data: HW HY NWF. Wrote the paper: MS HW HY NWF ESB.