About the Authors

Nelum Wickramasinghe

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Avian Evolution Node, Department of Zoology and Environment Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka, National Center for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India

V. V. Robin

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

Affiliation National Center for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India

Uma Ramakrishnan

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Center for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India

Sushma Reddy

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biology Department, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Sampath S. Seneviratne

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sam@sci.cmb.ac.lk

Affiliation Avian Evolution Node, Department of Zoology and Environment Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.