About the Authors

Edward D. Burress

edb0014@auburn.edu

Current Address: Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, United States of America

Alejandro Duarte

Affiliation Sección Zoologia Vertebrados, Departmento de Ecologia y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay

Wilson S. Serra

Affiliations Sección Zoologia Vertebrados, Departmento de Ecologia y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay, Sección Ictiologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Montevideo, Uruguay

Marcelo Loueiro

Affiliations Sección Zoologia Vertebrados, Departmento de Ecologia y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay, Sección Ictiologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Montevideo, Uruguay

Michael M. Gangloff

Affiliation Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, United States of America

Lynn Siefferman

Affiliation Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EDB LS MMG. Performed the experiments: EDB AD WS ML. Analyzed the data: EDB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LS MMG ML. Wrote the manuscript: EDB. Provided manuscript revisions: LS MMG ML AD WS.