About the Authors

Jennifer M. Fill

jenna999@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Jayme L. Waldron

Contributed equally to this work with: Jayme L. Waldron, Shane M. Welch

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Shane M. Welch

Contributed equally to this work with: Jayme L. Waldron, Shane M. Welch

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

J. Whitfield Gibbons

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America

Stephen H. Bennett

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Timothy A. Mousseau

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JLW SMW JMF. Performed the experiments: JLW JMF. Analyzed the data: JLW SMW JMF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JLW SMW JMF TAM SHB JWG. Wrote the paper: JLW SMW JMF TAM SHB JWG.