About the Authors

Jan Oettler

Contributed equally to this work with: Jan Oettler, Volker S. Schmid

joettler@gmail.com

Affiliation Biologie I, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Volker S. Schmid

Contributed equally to this work with: Jan Oettler, Volker S. Schmid

Affiliation Biologie I, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Niko Zankl

Affiliation Biologie I, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Olivier Rey

Affiliation Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations, Campus international de Baillarguet, Montferrier-sur-Lez cedex, France

Andreas Dress

Affiliations Chinese Academy of Sciences – Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, infinity3 GmbH, Bielefeld, Germany

Jürgen Heinze

Affiliation Biologie I, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Competing Interests

AD is a consultant with Infinity3. This affiliation to infinity3 does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JO VSS AD JH. Performed the experiments: JO NZ. Analyzed the data: JO VSS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OR. Wrote the paper: JO VSS JH AD.