About the Authors

Grit Schubert

schubertg@rki.de

Affiliations Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Epidemiology of highly pathogenic microorganisms, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Linda Vigilant

Affiliation Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Christophe Boesch

Affiliation Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Reinhard Klenke

Affiliation Department of Conservation Biology, UFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany

Kevin Langergraber

Affiliations Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Anthropology, Boston University, Boston, United States of America

Roger Mundry

Affiliation Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Martin Surbeck

Affiliation Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Gottfried Hohmann

Affiliation Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GS LV CB RK KL RM MS GH. Performed the experiments: GS. Analyzed the data: GS RK KL RM MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LV CB RK KL RM GH. Wrote the manuscript: GS LV CB RK KL RM MS GH.