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Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Mohamed Raafet Ben Khedher conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper.

Mohamed Hammami conceived and designed the experiments, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Jonathan Robert Arch analyzed the data, reviewed drafts of the paper.

David Christopher Hislop performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables.

Dominic Anthony Eze performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables.

Edward Taynton Wargent performed the experiments, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Małgorzata Anna Kępczyńska performed the experiments, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Mohamed Sghaier Zaibi 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):

Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Board (AWERB), University of Buckingham

Field Study Permissions

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

Housing and procedures were conducted in accordance with the UK Government Animal (Scientific procedures) Act 1986

Funding

The authors received no funding for this work.


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