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  1. Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Ambika Kamath

  2. Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Ambika Kamath & Max R. Lambert

  3. Center for Reproductive Evolution, Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA

    Caitlin E. McDonough

  4. School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

    Julia D. Monk

  5. Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Erin Giglio

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