About the Authors

Antony G. Brown

Tony.Brown@soton.ac.uk

Affiliation Palaeoenvironmental Laboratories (PLUS), University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Laura S. Basell

Affiliation School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Sian Robinson

Affiliation MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Graham C. Burdge

Affiliation Institute of Developmental Sciences Building, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AGB LSB. Performed the experiments: AGB LSB. Analyzed the data: AGB LSB SR GCB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AGB SR GCB. Wrote the paper: AGB LSB.