1. Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
2. Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
3. Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.
4. School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS, UK.
5. Department of Physical Geography, Geomorphology and Paleogeography, Chernivtsi ‘Yuriy Fed'kovych’ National University, Kotsubynskogo 2, 58012 Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
6. Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
7. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany.
8. Laboratory of Theriology, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.
9. State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
10. Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Leibniz-Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, 10315 Berlin, Germany.
11. Faculty of Life Sciences, Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute, Humboldt University Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
12. Brown Hyena Research Project, Luderitz, Namibia, Centre of Wildlife Management, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
13. Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.
14. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
15. Department of Palaeobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.
16. Section of Computational and RNA Biology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.