About the Authors

Christof W. Schneider

christof.schneider@bio.uni-frankfurt.de

Affiliations Institut für Bienenkunde, Department of Biological Science, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, BEEgroup, Biocentre, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Jürgen Tautz

Affiliation BEEgroup, Biocentre, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Bernd Grünewald

Affiliation Institut für Bienenkunde, Department of Biological Science, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Stefan Fuchs

Affiliation Institut für Bienenkunde, Department of Biological Science, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CWS. Performed the experiments: CWS. Analyzed the data: CWS SF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BG JT. Wrote the paper: CWS.