About the Authors

Jiabo Tan

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

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N. S., Canada

Thomas H. MacRae

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

tmacrae@dal.ca

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N. S., Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.