About the Authors

Mengning Maureen Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Mengning Maureen Liu, John W. Davey, Ruby Banerjee

Affiliations School of Biology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

John W. Davey

Contributed equally to this work with: Mengning Maureen Liu, John W. Davey, Ruby Banerjee

Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ruby Banerjee

Contributed equally to this work with: Mengning Maureen Liu, John W. Davey, Ruby Banerjee

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jie Han

Affiliations School of Biology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom, College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P. R. China

Fengtang Yang

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Aziz Aboobaker

Affiliations School of Biology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Mark L. Blaxter

Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, The GenePool Genomics Facility, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Angus Davison

angus.davison@nottingham.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Biology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MML JWD RB FY AA MLB AD. Performed the experiments: MML RB JH AD. Analyzed the data: MML JWD MLB AD. Wrote the paper: MML JWD RB FY MLB AD. Commented on the manuscript: AA.