About the Authors

Hans-Jürgen Osigus

h.j.osigus@ecolevol.de

Affiliation ITZ, Ecology & Evolution, Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Michael Eitel

Current address: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Paleontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Affiliation ITZ, Ecology & Evolution, Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Bernd Schierwater

Affiliations ITZ, Ecology & Evolution, Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics and Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HJO ME BS. Data curation: HJO BS. Formal analysis: HJO ME. Funding acquisition: BS. Investigation: HJO. Methodology: HJO ME BS. Project administration: BS. Resources: BS. Supervision: BS. Validation: HJO ME BS. Visualization: HJO. Writing – original draft: HJO. Writing – review & editing: HJO ME BS.