About the Authors

Wei-Guo Du

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Key Lab of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Ming-Chung Tu

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Rajkumar S. Radder

† Deceased.

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Richard Shine

rick.shine@sydney.edu.au

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

† Deceased.

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS MCT WGD. Performed the experiments: MCT WGD RSR. Analyzed the data: RS MCT WGD. Wrote the paper: RS MCT WGD.