About the Authors

Natalia A. Rossi Lafferriere

Contributed equally to this work with: Natalia A. Rossi Lafferriere, Rafael Antelo

nar2118@columbia.edu

Affiliations Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Rafael Antelo

Contributed equally to this work with: Natalia A. Rossi Lafferriere, Rafael Antelo

Affiliations Fundación Palmarito Casanare, Bogotá, Colombia, Dpto. Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain, Estación Biológica El Frío, Apure, Venezuela

Fernando Alda

Affiliations Dpto. Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain, LSU Museum of Natural Science, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Dick Mårtensson

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Frank Hailer

Affiliations School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3AX, Wales, United Kingdom, Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC, United States of America

Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher

Affiliation Lab. de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brasil

José Ayarzagüena

† Deceased.

Affiliation Estación Biológica El Frío, Apure, Venezuela

Joshua R. Ginsberg

Affiliations Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York, United States of America

Javier Castroviejo

Affiliations Estación Biológica El Frío, Apure, Venezuela, Asociación Amigos de Doñana, Seville, Spain

Ignacio Doadrio

Affiliation Dpto. Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Carles Vilá

Affiliation Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain

George Amato

Affiliation Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NARL RA FA DM FH SCF JA CV JC ID. Performed the experiments: NARL RA FA DM FH SCF JA CV JC ID. Analyzed the data: NARL RA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NARL RA FA DM FH SCF CV JA JG JC ID GA. Wrote the paper: NARL RA FA FH SCF CV JG GA.