About the Authors

Philippe Gaubert

gaubert@mnhn.fr

Affiliation UMR BOREA IRD 207, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Cécile Bloch

Affiliation SYLVATROP, Nantes, France

Slim Benyacoub

Affiliation Laboratoire d’Ecologie des Systèmes Terrestres et Aquatiques, Faculté des Sciences, Université d’Annaba, Algérie

Adnan Abdelhamid

Affiliation Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, Nature Conservation Sector, Cairo, Egypt

Paolo Pagani

Affiliation Dutch Wildlife Health Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Chabi Adéyèmi Marc Sylvestre Djagoun

Affiliation Laboratoire d’Ecologie Appliquée, Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin

Arnaud Couloux

Affiliation Genoscope, Centre National de Séquençage, Evry, France

Sylvain Dufour

Affiliation SYLVATROP, Nantes, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PG CB SD. Performed the experiments: PG CB SB AA PP CAMSD AC. Analyzed the data: PG CB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PG CB AC SD. Wrote the paper: PG.