About the Authors

Ruian Ke

ruian@ucla.edu (RK); jlloydsmith@ucla.edu (JOLS)

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

John Aaskov

Affiliation Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Edward C. Holmes

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences and Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

James O. Lloyd-Smith

ruian@ucla.edu (RK); jlloydsmith@ucla.edu (JOLS)

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: RK. Conceived and designed the experiments: RK JOLS. Analyzed the data: RK JA ECH JOLS. Wrote the paper: RK JA ECH JOLS.