About the Authors

Aaron R. Jex

Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron R. Jex, Andrea Waeschenbach

ajex@unimelb.edu.au (ARJ); robinbg@unimelb.edu.au (RBG)

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Werribee, Victoria, Australia

Andrea Waeschenbach

Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron R. Jex, Andrea Waeschenbach

Affiliation Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

D. Timothy J. Littlewood

Affiliation Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Min Hu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Werribee, Victoria, Australia

Robin B. Gasser

ajex@unimelb.edu.au (ARJ); robinbg@unimelb.edu.au (RBG)

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Werribee, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ARJ DTJL RBG. Performed the experiments: AW. Analyzed the data: ARJ MH RBG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AW DTJL RBG. Wrote the paper: ARJ DTJL RBG.