About the Authors

Christina J. Painting

chrissiepainting@gmail.com

Affiliations Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland Mail Centre, Auckland, New Zealand

William Splinter

Affiliation Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Sophia Callander

Affiliation Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Tim Maricic

Affiliation Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Marianne Peso

Affiliations Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, Australia

Patricia R. Y. Backwell

Affiliation Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WS PRYB. Performed the experiments: CJP WS SC TM MP PRYB. Analyzed the data: CJP PRYB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PRYB. Wrote the paper: CJP WS SC TM MP PRYB.