About the Authors

Pasi Sihvonen

pasi.sihvonen@helsinki.fi

Affiliation Research Funding Services, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Marko Mutanen

Affiliation Zoological Museum, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Lauri Kaila

Affiliation Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Gunnar Brehm

Affiliation Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Jena, Germany

Axel Hausmann

Affiliation Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, München, Germany

Hermann S. Staude

Affiliation Magaliesburg, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS MM LK. Performed the experiments: MM LK. Analyzed the data: MM LK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PS MM LK GB AH HSS. Wrote the paper: PS MM LK GB AH HSS.