About the Authors

Frank Drygala

Affiliation Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Luxembourg

Nikolay Korablev

Affiliation Velikie Luki State Agricultural Academy, Velikie Luki, Russia

Hermann Ansorge

Affiliation Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany

Joerns Fickel

Affiliations Leibniz-Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Berlin, Germany, Potsdam University, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, Potsdam, Germany

Marja Isomursu

Affiliation Finnish Food Safety Authority, Production animal and wildlife research unit, Oulu, Finland

Morten Elmeros

Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Rønde, Denmark

Rafał Kowalczyk

Affiliation Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland

Laima Baltrunaite

Affiliation Nature Research Centre, Institute of Ecology, Vilnius, Lithuania

Linas Balciauskas

Affiliation Nature Research Centre, Institute of Ecology, Vilnius, Lithuania

Urmas Saarma

Affiliation University of Tartu, Department of Zoology, Tartu, Estonia

Christoph Schulze

Affiliation Landeslabor Berlin-Brandenburg, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

Peter Borkenhagen

Affiliation Faunistisch-Ökologischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft S-H, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

Alain C. Frantz

alainfrantz@yahoo.co.uk

Affiliation Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Luxembourg

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FD ACF. Performed the experiments: FD ACF. Analyzed the data: FD ACF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NK HA JF MI ME RK L. Baltrunaite L. Balciauskas US CS PB. Wrote the paper: FD ACF.