We are primarily funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), the German Research Foundation (DFG),
and the International Max Planck Research School for Evolutionary Biology (IMPRS).

Additional funding was received from the German Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation and the Daimler and Benz Foundation.

We are part of various local research consortia: research unit 5048, 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.