About the Authors

Dmitry Dedukh

Affiliation Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Spartak Litvinchuk

Affiliation Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Juriy Rosanov

Affiliation Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Glib Mazepa

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Genetic, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Alsu Saifitdinova

Affiliation Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Dmitry Shabanov

Affiliation V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Alla Krasikova

alla.krasikova@gmail.com

Affiliation Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK AS. Performed the experiments: DD DS JR SL GM. Analyzed the data: DD SL AK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK SL. Wrote the paper: DD AK. Collected the samples: DD DS.