Funding for this research was provided by:
North Carolina Herpetological Society
University of Tennessee Knoxville Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
National Science Foundation (DGE-1452154)
Article History
Received: 17 May 2020
Accepted: 28 December 2020
First Online: 22 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest or competing interests.
: This research was approved under an animal use protocol from the University of Tennessee Knoxville IACUC (#2482-0916), and collections were permitted by the Chattahoochee National Forest and in compliance with all local, state, and federal wildlife laws and regulations. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: All authors approved the final version of this manuscript.