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Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Verónica L. Urgilés conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Juan Carlos Sánchez-Nivicela conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Diego F Cisneros-Heredia conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Animal Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

Specimens deposited at MZUA were collected under permits 065-DPA-MA-2014 and 019-IC-FAU/FLO-DPZCH-MA issued by Ministerio del Ambiente, Ecuador.

Field Study Permissions

The following information was supplied relating to field study approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

Research was conducted under permits 065-DPA-MA-2014 and 019-IC-FAU/FLO-DPZCH-MA issued by Ministerio del Ambiente, Ecuador.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

All raw data are included in the manuscript.

Funding

Research funding was provided by Universidad del Azuay (budget code Fondos UDA 2016 [39, 2016]); 2002 Research Training Program (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution) and the Smithsonian Women's Committee; Programa “Becas de Excelencia”, Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENESCYT), Ecuador; Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ (Chancellor's Grant). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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