About the Authors

Alexandra R. Wey-Fabrizius

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandra R. Wey-Fabrizius, Holger Herlyn

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Genetics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Holger Herlyn

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandra R. Wey-Fabrizius, Holger Herlyn

Affiliation Institute of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Benjamin Rieger

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Genetics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

David Rosenkranz

Affiliation Institute of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Alexander Witek

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Genetics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

David B. Mark Welch

Affiliation Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ingo Ebersberger

Affiliation Institute for Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany

Thomas Hankeln

hankeln@uni-mainz.de

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Genetics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ARWF HH TH. Performed the experiments: ARWF HH. Analyzed the data: ARWF BR DR IE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HH BR DR AW DMBW IE. Wrote the paper: ARWF HH TH. Critical revision of the manuscript: BR DR AW DBMW IE.