About the Authors

Hernán López-Fernández

hernanl@rom.on.ca

Affiliations Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kirk O. Winemiller

Affiliation Section of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Carmen Montaña

Affiliation Section of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Rodney L. Honeycutt

Affiliation Natural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HLF KOW RLH. Performed the experiments: HLF KOW CM. Analyzed the data: HLF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KOW HLF RLH CM. Wrote the paper: HLF KOW CM RLH.