About the Authors

Pradeep K. Divakar

Affiliation Departamento de Biología Vegetal II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Frank Kauff

Affiliation FB Biologie, Molecular Phylogenetics, TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Ana Crespo

Affiliation Departamento de Biología Vegetal II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Steven D. Leavitt

Affiliation Science & Education, The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

H. Thorsten Lumbsch

tlumbsch@fieldmuseum.org

Affiliation Science & Education, The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PKD FK AC HTL. Performed the experiments: PKD FK HTL. Analyzed the data: PKD AC SL HTL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PKD FK. Wrote the manuscript: PKD AC SL HTL.