About the Authors

Dirk Steinke

Contributed equally to this work with: Dirk Steinke, Tyler S. Zemlak

dsteinke@uoguelph.ca

Affiliation Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Tyler S. Zemlak

Contributed equally to this work with: Dirk Steinke, Tyler S. Zemlak

Current address: Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Affiliation Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Paul D. N. Hebert

Affiliation Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS TSZ PDNH. Performed the experiments: DS TSZ. Analyzed the data: DS TSZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PDNH. Wrote the paper: DS TSZ PDNH.