About the Authors

Eugen Bauer

Current address: Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, 7 Avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux, L-4362, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Affiliation Insect Symbiosis Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, 07745, Germany

Hassan Salem

Affiliation Insect Symbiosis Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, 07745, Germany

Manja Marz

Affiliation Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, 07743, Germany

Heiko Vogel

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, 07745, Germany

Martin Kaltenpoth

mkaltenpoth@ice.mpg.de

Affiliation Insect Symbiosis Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, 07745, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EB HS MM HV MK. Performed the experiments: EB HS. Analyzed the data: EB HV. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: EB HS MK.