About the Authors

Edmund Gittenberger

Edi.Gittenberger@ncbnaturalis.nnm.nl

Affiliation Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity, Leiden, The Netherlands

Thomas D. Hamann

Affiliation Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity, Leiden, The Netherlands

Takahiro Asami

Affiliation Department of Biology, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TA EG. Performed the experiments: TA EG TH. Analyzed the data: EG TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TA EG TH. Wrote the paper: EG.