About the Authors

Yarin Hadid

Contributed equally to this work with: Yarin Hadid, Attila Németh

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology and Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Attila Németh

Contributed equally to this work with: Yarin Hadid, Attila Németh

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

Sagi Snir

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology and Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Tomáš Pavlíček

pavlicek@research.haifa.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology and Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Gábor Csorba

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary

Miklós Kázmér

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

Ágnes Major

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary

Sergey Mezhzherin

Affiliation Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kiev, Ukraine

Mikhail Rusin

Affiliation Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kiev, Ukraine

Yüksel Coşkun

Affiliation Department of Biology, Science and Art Faculty, Dicle University, Diyarbakır, Turkey

Eviatar Nevo

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology and Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH TP EN AN GC. Performed the experiments: YH AN GC AM SM MR YC. Analyzed the data: YH TP SS AN MK GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YH TP EN GC AM SM MR YC AN. Wrote the paper: YH TP AN SS.