About the Authors

Laura D. Bertola

bertola@cml.leidenuniv.nl

Affiliations Leiden University, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), PO Box 9518, 2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands, Leiden University, Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), PO Box 9505, 2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands

Laura Tensen

Affiliation University of Johannesburg, Department of Zoology, PO Box 524, Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa

Pim van Hooft

Affiliation Wageningen University, Resource Ecology Group, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, 6708, PB Wageningen, The Netherlands

Paula A. White

Affiliation Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, La Kretz Hall Suite 300, 619 Charles E. Young Dr. East, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095–1496, United States of America

Carlos A. Driscoll

Affiliation Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, 248 001, Uttarakhand, India

Philipp Henschel

Affiliation Panthera, 8 West 40th Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY, 10018, United States of America

Anthony Caragiulo

Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, 79th Street at Central Park West, New York, NY, 10024, United States of America

Isabela Dias-Freedman

Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, 79th Street at Central Park West, New York, NY, 10024, United States of America

Etotépé A. Sogbohossou

Affiliations Leiden University, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), PO Box 9518, 2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Appliquée, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Champ de Foire 03 BP 1974, Cotonou, Benin

Pricelia N. Tumenta

Affiliations Leiden University, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), PO Box 9518, 2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands, Centre for Environment and Development Studies in Cameroon, University of Dschang, BP 410, Maroua, Cameroon

Tuqa H. Jirmo

Affiliation Leiden University, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), PO Box 9518, 2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands

Geert R. de Snoo

Affiliation Leiden University, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), PO Box 9518, 2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands

Hans H. de Iongh

Contributed equally to this work with: Hans H. de Iongh, Klaas Vrieling

Affiliations Leiden University, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), PO Box 9518, 2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands, University of Antwerp, Department Biology, Evolutionary Ecology Group, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020, Antwerpen, Belgium

Klaas Vrieling

Contributed equally to this work with: Hans H. de Iongh, Klaas Vrieling

Affiliation Leiden University, Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), PO Box 9505, 2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LDB KV HHdI AC ID-F GRdS. Performed the experiments: LDB LT AC IDF PvH. Analyzed the data: LDB LT AC IDF PvH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PAW CAD PH PNT EAS THJ. Wrote the paper: LDB LT PvH PAW CAD PH AC ID-F EAS PNT THJ GRdS HHdI KV.