About the Authors

Marissa A. Ahlering

mahlering@tnc.org

¤ Current address: The Nature Conservancy, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Affiliations Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, District of Colombia, United States of America, African Conservation Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

Lori S. Eggert

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

David Western

Affiliation African Conservation Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

Anna Estes

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Linus Munishi

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society, Tarangire Elephant Project, Arusha, Tanzania

Robert Fleischer

Affiliation Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, District of Colombia, United States of America

Melissa Roberts

Affiliations Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, District of Colombia, United States of America, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington District of Colombia, United States of America

Jesus E. Maldonado

Affiliations Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, District of Colombia, United States of America, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington District of Colombia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAA LSE DW. Performed the experiments: MAA MR. Analyzed the data: MAA LSE JEM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LSE JEM RF AE LM. Wrote the paper: MAA LSE DW AE LM RF MR JEM.