<p>Supporting information. Characteristics of participants by gender, academic/scientific position, branch of biology in which they work, years spent in research, sort of organisms on which they conduct research.</p><p>Gender Number of responses Branch of biology Number of responses Male 101 Bioinformatics 10 Female 50 Botany & Virology 9 Total 151 Cell biology 14 Academic/scientific position Conservation biology 4 Full professor 50 Ecology 40 Associate professor 28 Epigenetics 3 Assistant professor 20 Marine biology 5 Postdoctoral fellow 9 Microbiology 22 Senior research 3 Molecular biology 20 fellow Junior research 0 Mycology 1 fellow Senior lecturer 3 Neurobiology 8 Junior lecturer 3 Physiology 7 PhD student 28 Zoology 19 Other: 7 Other: 31 Total 151 Total 193 Years in research Sort of organisms 0-5 30 Archea 5 6-10 25 Bacteria 22 11-15 14 Protista 14 16-20 20 Animalia 114 21+ 62 Plantae 29 Total 151 Fungi 8 Viruses 1 Total 193</p>