About the Authors

Yoshiyuki Henning

yoshiyuki.henning@uni-due.de

Affiliation Department of General Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Christiane Vole

Affiliation Department of General Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Sabine Begall

Affiliation Department of General Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Martin Bens

Affiliation Genome Analysis, Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany

Martina Broecker-Preuss

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism and Division of Laboratory Research, University Hospital, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Arne Sahm

Affiliation Genome Analysis, Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany

Karol Szafranski

Affiliation Genome Analysis, Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany

Hynek Burda

Affiliation Department of General Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Philip Dammann

Affiliations Department of General Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Central Animal Laboratory, University Hospital, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH CV SB MB MBP AS KS HB PD. Performed the experiments: YH CV AS KS PD. Analyzed the data: YH CV SB MB AS KS PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SB HB MBP KS PD. Wrote the paper: YH CV SB AS KS HB PS.