About the Authors

Barnabas H. Daru

Contributed equally to this work with: Barnabas H. Daru, Kowiyou Yessoufou

darunabas@gmail.com

Affiliation African Centre for DNA Barcoding, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Kowiyou Yessoufou

Contributed equally to this work with: Barnabas H. Daru, Kowiyou Yessoufou

Affiliation African Centre for DNA Barcoding, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Ledile T. Mankga

Affiliation African Centre for DNA Barcoding, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

T. Jonathan Davies

Affiliation Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BHD KY TJD. Performed the experiments: BHD KY LTM. Analyzed the data: BHD KY TJD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BHD KY LTM TJD. Wrote the paper: BHD KY TJD.