About the Authors

Stefan Prost

stefan.prost@gmi.oeaw.ac.at

Current address: Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna, Austria

Affiliations Research Group Molecular Ecology, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Paleontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Nickolay Smirnov

Affiliation Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia

Vadim B. Fedorov

Affiliation Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

Robert S. Sommer

Affiliation Ecology Centre, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Mathias Stiller

Current address: Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Research Group Molecular Ecology, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Doris Nagel

Affiliation Department of Paleontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Michael Knapp

Current address: Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Affiliation Research Group Molecular Ecology, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Michael Hofreiter

Current address: Department of Biology, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Affiliation Research Group Molecular Ecology, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP MS DN MK MH. Performed the experiments: SP. Analyzed the data: SP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS VBF. Wrote the paper: SP NS VBF RS MK MH.