About the Authors

Mehmet Somel

Contributed equally to this work with: Mehmet Somel, Hilliary Creely

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: somel@eva.mpg.de (MS); khaitovich@eva.mpg.de (PK)

Affiliations Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Hilliary Creely

Contributed equally to this work with: Mehmet Somel, Hilliary Creely

Current address: Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America,

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Henriette Franz

Current address: Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Uwe Mueller

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology and Biomedicine, University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Michael Lachmann

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Philipp Khaitovich

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: somel@eva.mpg.de (MS); khaitovich@eva.mpg.de (PK)

Affiliations Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Svante Pääbo

Affiliation 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: SP PK ML HC. Performed the experiments: HC HF UM. Analyzed the data: PK MS HC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SP ML UM. Wrote the paper: SP PK ML MS HC.