About the Authors

Marc Tollis

Affiliations Biology Department, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, New York, United States of America, Biology Program: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Gavriel Ausubel

Affiliation Biology Department, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, New York, United States of America

Dhruba Ghimire

Affiliation Biology Department, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, New York, United States of America

Stéphane Boissinot

stephane.boissinot@qc.cuny.edu

Affiliations Biology Department, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, New York, United States of America, Biology Program: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT SB. Performed the experiments: MT GA DG. Analyzed the data: MT. Wrote the paper: MT.