About the Authors

Cen Zeng

Affiliation Department of Biology II, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Ivan Gomez-Mestre

Affiliation Ecology, Evolution, and Development Group, Doñana Biological Station, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Seville, Spain

John J. Wiens

wiensj@email.arizona.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CZ IGM JJW. Performed the experiments: CZ JJW. Analyzed the data: CZ JJW. Wrote the paper: CZ IGM JJW.