About the Authors

Stéphane Boyer

Stephane.Boyer@lincoln.ac.nz

Affiliations Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand, Department of Ecology, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand

Stephen D. Wratten

Affiliation Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand

Andrew Holyoake

Affiliation Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand

Jawad Abdelkrim

Affiliations Centre for Reproduction and Genomics, Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, Unité Conservation des Espèces, Restauration et Suivi des Populations, UMR 7204, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Robert H. Cruickshank

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB SDW JA AH RHC. Performed the experiments: SB. Analyzed the data: SB JA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SB SDW RHC. Wrote the manuscript: SB SDW AH JA RHC.