About the Authors

Ingrid Parmentier

Affiliation Evolutionary Biology and Ecology – Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Jérôme Duminil

Affiliations Evolutionary Biology and Ecology – Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, Sub-regional Office for Central Africa, Bioversity International, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Maria Kuzmina

Affiliation Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Morgane Philippe

Affiliation Evolutionary Biology and Ecology – Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Duncan W. Thomas

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

David Kenfack

Affiliation Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States of America

George B. Chuyong

Affiliation Department of Plant and Animal Sciences, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

Corinne Cruaud

Affiliation Institut de Génomique – Génoscope, Commissariat à l′énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Evry, France

Olivier J. Hardy

ohardy@ulb.ac.be

Affiliation Evolutionary Biology and Ecology – Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Critically revised and approved the version to be published: IP JD MK MP DWT DK GC CC OJH. Conceived and designed the experiments: IP OJH. Performed the experiments: IP MP JD MK CC. Analyzed the data: IP MK OJH JD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC MK DWT GC DK. Wrote the paper: IP JD OJH DWT.