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We thank Vishnu D Mukri, B Karthick, and Lakshminarayan of CES, IISc, Bangalore for assistance in the field; the Department of Forest, Government of Karnataka, for the necessary permission to carry out the work; Varad Giri for specimen verification at the BNHS museum; and the Director, CCMB, Hyderabad for permission to undertake the work at CCMB. RKA thanks the Department of Biotechnology and the Central Zoo Authority, India, for establishing the LACONES lab facilities used in the study.

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