About the Authors

Igor Khorozyan

Contributed equally to this work with: Igor Khorozyan, Mahmood Soofi

igor.khorozyan@biologie.uni-goettingen.de

Affiliation Workgroup on Endangered Species, J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Mahmood Soofi

Contributed equally to this work with: Igor Khorozyan, Mahmood Soofi

Current address: Workgroup on Endangered Species, J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Affiliation Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation, Tehran, Iran

Amirhossein Khaleghi Hamidi

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation, Tehran, Iran

Arash Ghoddousi

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Workgroup on Endangered Species, J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Matthias Waltert

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Workgroup on Endangered Species, J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IK AG MW. Performed the experiments: IK MS AKH AG. Analyzed the data: IK MW AG. Wrote the paper: IK.