About the Authors

Karin Tamar

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

karintmr@gmail.com (KT); salvador.carranza@ibe.upf-csic.es (SC)

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain

Johannes Els

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environment and Protected Areas Authority, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Panagiotis Kornilios

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain, The Molecular Ecology Backshop, G. Lekka, Loutraki, Greece

Pritpal Soorae

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environment Agency, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Pedro Tarroso

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain, CIBIO/InBIO, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, Vairão, Vila do Conde, Portugal

Evanthia Thanou

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Molecular Ecology Backshop, G. Lekka, Loutraki, Greece, Section of Animal Biology, Department of Biology, School of Natural Sciences, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

John Pereira

Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environment and Protected Areas Authority, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Junid Nazeer Shah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Natural Resource Conservation Section, Environment Department, Dubai Municipality, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Esmat Elfaki Mohammed Elhassan

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Natural Resource Conservation Section, Environment Department, Dubai Municipality, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Jeruel Cabadonga Aguhob

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Natural Resource Conservation Section, Environment Department, Dubai Municipality, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Saoud Faisal Badaam

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Natural Resource Conservation Section, Environment Department, Dubai Municipality, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Mohamed Mustafa Eltayeb

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Natural Resource Conservation Section, Environment Department, Dubai Municipality, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Ricardo Pusey

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environment Agency, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Theodore J. Papenfuss

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

J. Robert Macey

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Peralta Genomics Institute, Chancellor’s Office, Peralta Community College District, Oakland, CA, United States of America

Salvador Carranza

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

karintmr@gmail.com (KT); salvador.carranza@ibe.upf-csic.es (SC)

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.