About the Authors

Martin Jones

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin Jones, Anisah Ghoorah

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Anisah Ghoorah

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin Jones, Anisah Ghoorah

Current address: LORIA - INRIA Nancy Grand Est, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Mark Blaxter

mark.blaxter@ed.ac.uk

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJ AG MB. Analyzed the data: MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG MJ. Wrote the paper: MJ MB.