About the Authors

Jay F Storz

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jstorz2@unl.edu

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Stephen J Sabatino

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Federico G Hoffmann

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Eben J Gering

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Hideaki Moriyama

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Nuno Ferrand

Affiliations Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal , Departamento de Zoologia e Anthropologia, Faculdade de Ciências do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Bruno Monteiro

Affiliations Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal , Departamento de Zoologia e Anthropologia, Faculdade de Ciências do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Michael W Nachman

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

JFS and MWN conceived and designed the project. JFS and EJG conducted the field work. JFS, SJS, FGH, EJG, NF, and BM collected the molecular data, JFS and HM analyzed the data, and JFS wrote the paper.