We are primarily funded by the
German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF).
Additional funding is received from the German Research Foundation (DFG),
and the International Max Planck Research School for Evolutionary
Biology (IMPRS).
We are part of various local research consortia: research unit 5042, collaborative research center 1182, and excellence cluster 2167.
We thank the Baines group for sharing facilities and resources.
We acknowledge the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein,
Kiel University, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
for hosting us.