About the Authors

Pamela Vega-Polo

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

Affiliation Laboratorio de Biotecnología Vegetal, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Quito, Ecuador

Maria Mercedes Cobo

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

Affiliations Laboratorio de Biotecnología Vegetal, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Quito, Ecuador, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Andrea Argudo

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratorio de Biotecnología Vegetal, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Quito, Ecuador

Bernardo Gutierrez

Roles Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratorio de Biotecnología Vegetal, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Quito, Ecuador, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Jennifer Rowntree

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, Ecology and Environment Research Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford, United Kingdom

Maria de Lourdes Torres

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

ltorres@usfq.edu.ec

Affiliation Laboratorio de Biotecnología Vegetal, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Quito, Ecuador

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.