About the Authors

Rita Rasteiro

rr147@le.ac.uk (RR); chikhi@igc.gulbenkian.pt (LC)

Current address: Department of Genetics/School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Lounès Chikhi

rr147@le.ac.uk (RR); chikhi@igc.gulbenkian.pt (LC)

Affiliations Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, CNRS, Universite Paul Sabatier, ENFA, UMR 5174 EDB (Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique), Toulouse, France, Université de Toulouse; UPS; EDB (Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique), Toulouse, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RR LC. Performed the experiments: RR LC. Analyzed the data: RR LC. Wrote the paper: RR LC.