About the Authors

Anna S. Druzhkova

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna S. Druzhkova, Olaf Thalmann

Affiliation Department of Genomic Diversity and Evolution, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Olaf Thalmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna S. Druzhkova, Olaf Thalmann

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Physiology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Vladimir A. Trifonov

vlad@mcb.nsc.ru

Affiliation Department of Genomic Diversity and Evolution, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Jennifer A. Leonard

Affiliation Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), Seville, Spain

Nadezhda V. Vorobieva

Affiliation Department of Genomic Diversity and Evolution, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Nikolai D. Ovodov

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Alexander S. Graphodatsky

Affiliation Department of Genomic Diversity and Evolution, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Robert K. Wayne

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ASG RKW. Performed the experiments: ASD. Analyzed the data: ASD OT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NO NVV. Wrote the paper: OT VAT ASD JAL RKW ASG.