About the Authors

Stephanie Speck

stephanie.speck@vetmed.uni-leipzig.de

Current address: Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Alexandre Courtiol

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Christof Junkes

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin, Germany

Margitta Dathe

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin, Germany

Karin Müller

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Martin Schulze

Affiliation Institute for Reproduction of Farm Animals Schoenow e. V., Bernau, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS MS KM MD CJ. Performed the experiments: SS MS. Analyzed the data: SS AC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS AC MS KM. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SS AC MS KM CJ MD. Peptide design: MD CJ.