About the Authors

Nicole M Gerardo

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ngerardo@email.arizona.edu

Affiliations Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America , Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama , Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Sarah R Jacobs

Affiliations Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America , Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Cameron R Currie

Affiliations Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama , Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Ulrich G Mueller

Affiliations Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America , Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

NMG, SRJ, and CRC conceived and designed the experiments. NMG and SRJ performed the experiments and analyzed the data. UGM contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. NMG, SRJ, CRC, and UGM wrote the paper.