About the Authors

Brant C. Faircloth

Contributed equally to this work with: Brant C. Faircloth, Michael E. Alfaro

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Laurie Sorenson

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Francesco Santini

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Michael E. Alfaro

Contributed equally to this work with: Brant C. Faircloth, Michael E. Alfaro

michaelalfaro@ucla.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have received commercial funding from Amazon Web Services for this project to support computational analyses using the Amazon Web Services platform. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MEA BCF FS. Performed the experiments: BCF LS. Analyzed the data: BCF MEA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BCF LS FS MEA. Wrote the paper: BCF MEA.