About the Authors

Paul De Barro

paul.debarro@csiro.au

Affiliation CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Muhammad Z. Ahmed

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Contributed jointly to the development of the concept, the scope of the study and the types of analyses to be used: PDB MZA. Lead the analysis of the data: MZA. Lead the interpretation of the results and the writing of the manuscript: PDB.