About the Authors

Ruian Ke

ruian@ucla.edu

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

James O. Lloyd-Smith

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 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

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