About the Authors

Nina Vidergar

Affiliations Institute of Biology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Molecular Virology lab, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology–ICGEB, Trieste, Italy

Nataša Toplak

Affiliation Omega d.o.o., Ljubljana, Slovenia

Matjaž Kuntner

kuntner@gmail.com

Affiliations Institute of Biology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Centre for Behavioural Ecology & Evolution, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

One of the authors (N.T.) is employed by a commercial and research company, Omega d.o.o., Slovenia, in its research department. The company supported this research by making available reagents and this researcher's time, and by contributing towards covering the PLOS ONE open access fee for this article's publication. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NV NT MK. Performed the experiments: NV. Analyzed the data: NV MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NV NT MK. Wrote the paper: NV NT MK.