About the Authors

Davide M. Vespasiani

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Melbourne Integrative Genomics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

Guy S. Jacobs

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Uniteed Kingdom

Laura E. Cook

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Melbourne Integrative Genomics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

Nicolas Brucato

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratoire de Evolution et Diversite Biologique, Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France

Matthew Leavesley

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

Christopher Kinipi

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

François-Xavier Ricaut

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratoire de Evolution et Diversite Biologique, Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France

Murray P. Cox

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Irene Gallego Romero

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

irene.gallego@unimelb.edu.au

Affiliations Melbourne Integrative Genomics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, Center for Stem Cell Systems, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, Center for Genomics, Evolution and Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.