About the Authors

Simon Y. W. Ho

*E-mail: drsimonho@gmail.com

Current address: Centre for Macroecology and Macroevolution, School of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Urmas Saarma

Affiliations Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

Ross Barnett

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of York, York, United Kingdom

James Haile

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Beth Shapiro

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH. Analyzed the data: BS SH US. Wrote the paper: BS RB SH JH US.