About the Authors

Gary F. McCracken

gmccrack@utk.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

John K. Westbrook

Affiliation Areawide Pest Management Research Unit, USDA-ARS, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Veronica A. Brown

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Melanie Eldridge

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Paula Federico

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Thomas H. Kunz

Affiliation Centre for Ecology and Conservation Biology, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GFM JKW. Performed the experiments: GFM JKW VAB ME. Analyzed the data: GFM JKW VAB PF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GFM JKW ME THK. Wrote the paper: GFM JKW VAB PF THK.