About the Authors

Rihlat Said-Mohamed

rihlat@mnhn.fr

Affiliation UMR 7206 Eco-anthropologie et Ethnobiologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris Diderot University, Paris, France

Jonathan Y. Bernard

Current address: UMR 1018 Epidemiology of Diabetes, Obesity and Chronic Kidney Disease over the Lifecourse, Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médical, Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

Affiliation UMR 7206 Eco-anthropologie et Ethnobiologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris Diderot University, Paris, France

Anne-Christine Ndzana

Affiliation Centre for Food and Nutrition Research, Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plant Studies, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Patrick Pasquet

Affiliation UMR 7206 Eco-anthropologie et Ethnobiologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris Diderot University, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RSM PP. Performed the experiments: RSM JYB ACN PP. Analyzed the data: RSM JYB ACN PP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PP. Wrote the paper: RSM PP. Reviewed the paper: RSM JYB ACN PP.