About the Authors

M. Thomas P. Gilbert

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mtpgilbert@gmail.com

Current address: Ancient DNA and Evolution, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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

Tamara Haselkorn

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

Michael Bunce

Affiliation Ancient DNA Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Juan J. Sanchez

Affiliation National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Science, Canary Islands Delegation, Tenerife, Spain

Sebastian B. Lucas

Affiliation Department of Pathology, St Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Laurence D. Jewell

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Canada

Eric Van Marck

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Hospital, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Michael Worobey

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: MW MG. Performed the experiments: MW MG MB TH JS. Analyzed the data: SL MW MG MB TH JS LJ EV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL MW JS LJ EV. Wrote the paper: SL MW MG MB TH JS LJ EV.