About the Authors

Katrin Fehl

Katrin.Fehl@bio.uni-goettingen.de

Affiliation Junior Research Group Evolution of Cooperation and Prosocial Behaviour, Courant Research Centre Evolution of Social Behaviour, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Ralf D. Sommerfeld

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Dirk Semmann

Affiliation Junior Research Group Evolution of Cooperation and Prosocial Behaviour, Courant Research Centre Evolution of Social Behaviour, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Hans-Jürgen Krambeck

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Manfred Milinski

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RDS MM HJK. Performed the experiments: RDS MM DS. Analyzed the data: KF RDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJK. Wrote the paper: KF RDS DS MM.