About the Authors

Yang O. Zhao

Affiliation Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Aliaksandr Khaminets

Affiliation Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Julia P. Hunn

Affiliation Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Jonathan C. Howard

j.howard@uni-koeln.de

Affiliation Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YOZ AK JCH. Performed the experiments: YOZ AK. Analyzed the data: YOZ AK JPH JCH. Wrote the paper: YOZ JCH. Discussed and contributed to the manuscript: JPH.