About the Authors

Paolo Franchini

Contributed equally to this work with: Paolo Franchini, Carmelo Fruciano

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Carmelo Fruciano

Contributed equally to this work with: Paolo Franchini, Carmelo Fruciano

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Tancred Frickey

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Julia C. Jones

Current address: School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdoms

Affiliations Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Axel Meyer

axel.meyer@uni-konstanz.de

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: Axel Meyer is a PLOS ONE Academic Editor. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PF CF JCJ. Performed the experiments: PF CF JCJ. Analyzed the data: PF CF TF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CF JCJ AM. Wrote the paper: PF CF TF JCJ AM.