About the Authors
- Clara Escudero Duch
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¶‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.
Affiliation Department of Microbiology III, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Richard A. J. Williams
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¶‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.
Affiliations Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Natural Sciences, Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States of America
- Robert M. Timm
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Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States of America
- Javier Perez-Tris
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Affiliation Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Laura Benitez
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* E-mail: lbenitez@bio.ucm.es
Affiliation Department of Microbiology III, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RAJW RMT LB. Performed the experiments: CE LB. Analyzed the data: RAJW JPT LB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JPT LB. Wrote the paper: CE RAJW RMT JPT LB. Collected samples: RAJW RMT.