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Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Laetitia G.E. Wilkins conceived and designed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Matthieu Leray conceived and designed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Benedict Yuen conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Raquel Peixoto conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Tiago J. Pereira conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Holly M. Bik conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

David A. Coil conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

J. Emmett Duffy conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Edward Allen Herre conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Harilaos Lessios conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Noelle Lucey conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Luis C. Mejia conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Aaron O'Dea conceived and designed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Douglas B. Rasher conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Koty Sharp conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Emilia M. Sogin conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Robert W. Thacker conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Rebecca Vega Thurber conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

William T. Wcislo conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Elizabeth G. Wilbanks conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Jonathan A. Eisen conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

This is a Perspective paper or in other words: 'an opinionated review article'

Funding

We received funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through Grant GBMF5603 and from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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