About the Authors

Alfonso Marzal

Affiliations Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Department of Anatomy, Cellular Biology and Zoology, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

Robert E. Ricklefs

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Gediminas Valkiūnas

Affiliation Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

Tamer Albayrak

Affiliation Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, Biyoloji Bölümü, Burdur, Turkey

Elena Arriero

Affiliation Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR7103, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris, France

Camille Bonneaud

Affiliation Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS USR 2973, Moulis, France

Gábor A. Czirják

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

John Ewen

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom

Olof Hellgren

Affiliation Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Dita Hořáková

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Tatjana A. Iezhova

Affiliation Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

Henrik Jensen

Affiliation Department of Biology, Centre for Conservation Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Asta Križanauskienė

Affiliation Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

Marcos R. Lima

Affiliations Departamento de Ecologia-IB, Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil, Centre of Ecology and Conservation, School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Florentino de Lope

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Cellular Biology and Zoology, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

Eyðfinn Magnussen

Affiliation Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Faroes, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

Lynn B. Martin

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Anders P. Møller

Affiliations Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, CNRS UMR 8079, Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 362, Orsay, France, Center for Advanced Study, Oslo, Norway

Vaidas Palinauskas

Affiliation Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

Péter L. Pap

Affiliation Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Javier Pérez-Tris

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

Ravinder N. M. Sehgal

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Manuel Soler

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

Eszter Szöllősi

Affiliation Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Helena Westerdahl

Affiliation Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Pavel Zetindjiev

Affiliation Central Laboratory of General Ecology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

Staffan Bensch

Staffan.Bensch@zooekol.lu.se

Affiliation Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM SB RER GV. Performed the experiments: AM SB RER GV. Analyzed the data: AM RER GV TA EA CB GAC JE OH DH TAI HJ AK MRL FL EM LBM APM VP PLP JP RNMS MS ES HW PZ SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM RER GV TA EA CB GAC JE OH DH TAI HJ AK MRL FdL EM LBM APM VP PLP JP RNMS MS ES HW PZ SB. Wrote the paper: AM SB RER GV.