About the Authors

Victor Zeng

Current address: Stylux Incorporated, Atkinson, New Hampshire, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ben Ewen-Campen

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hadley W. Horch

Affiliation Departments of Biology and Neuroscience, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, United States of America

Siegfried Roth

Affiliation Institute for Developmental Biology, University of Cologne, Cologne Biocenter, Cologne, Germany

Taro Mito

Affiliation Department of Life Systems, Institute of Technology and Science, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima City, Japan

Cassandra G. Extavour

extavour@oeb.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CE BEC VZ. Performed the experiments: VZ BEC. Analyzed the data: VZ BEC CE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CE HH SR TM. Wrote the paper: CE VZ.