About the Authors

Evan J. Pickett

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

David L. Thomson

dthomson@hku.hk

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Biology Department, College of Science, UAE University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Teng A. Li

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Shuang Xing

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DLT EJP. Analyzed the data: EJP DLT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TAL SX. Wrote the paper: EJP DLT. Review of manuscript: DLT SX TAL. Developed additive temperature component of model: SX DLT. Developed the detection probability component of the quadratic model: TAL DLT.