About the Authors

Els Baalbergen

Contributed equally to this work with: Els Baalbergen, Renate Helwerda, Rense Schelfhorst

Affiliation Focus Group Character Evolution, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Renate Helwerda

Contributed equally to this work with: Els Baalbergen, Renate Helwerda, Rense Schelfhorst

Affiliation Focus Group Character Evolution, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Rense Schelfhorst

Contributed equally to this work with: Els Baalbergen, Renate Helwerda, Rense Schelfhorst

Affiliation Focus Group Character Evolution, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Ruth F. Castillo Cajas

Affiliations Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Coline H. M. van Moorsel

Affiliations St Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, Institute Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Robin Kundrata

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Francisco W. Welter-Schultes

Affiliation Zoologisches Institut der Universität, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Sinos Giokas

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Patras, Rio (Patras), Greece

Menno Schilthuizen

menno.schilthuizen@naturalis.nl

Affiliations Focus Group Character Evolution, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Institute Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EB RH RS RC CvM RK MS SG FWS. Performed the experiments: EB RH RS RC CvM RK MS SG FWS. Analyzed the data: EB RH RS RC CvM RK MS SG FWS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS SG FWS. Wrote the paper: MS.