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Competing Interests

The authors have no competing interests to declare.

Author Contributions

Kenneth J. Locey 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, derived the algorithms.

Daniel J. McGlinn contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper, coded algorithms into R.

Grant Disclosures

The following grant information was disclosed by the authors:

US National Science Foundation, CAREER grant to Ethan P. White, DEB-0953694

Funding

This study was supported by a CAREER grant from the US National Science Foundation to Ethan P. White (DEB-0953694), by the Joseph E. Greaves scholarship in Biology awarded through the Utah State University (USU) Department of Biology to Kenneth Locey, and by a dissertation fellowship awarded through the USU School of Graduate Studies to Kenneth Locey. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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