About the Authors

Angelika K. Loots

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

Affiliations National Zoological Garden, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa

Prudent S. Mokgokong

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation National Zoological Garden, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa

Emily Mitchell

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Zoological Garden, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa

Estelle H. Venter

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

Antoinette Kotze

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Zoological Garden, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa, Genetics Department, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa

Desiré Lee Dalton

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

d.dalton@sanbi.org.za

Affiliations National Zoological Garden, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Zoology, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.