Jayawardena, Uthpala A.
Rohr, Jason R.
Amerasinghe, Priyanie H.
Navaratne, Ayanthi N.
Rajakaruna, Rupika S.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Financial support was provided by the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka (NSF/2005/EB/02 to R.S.R.)
Article History
Received: 1 May 2017
Accepted: 30 August 2017
First Online: 22 September 2017
Ethics approval
: Authors declare that the experiments conducted, complied with the current laws of Sri Lanka. Approval was obtained for the collection of wildlife specimens from the protected areas, and for conducting animal research, from the Department of Wildlife Conservation, Sri Lanka and from the Ethics Review Committee, Postgraduate Institute of Science, University of Peradeniya, respectively. Hence, all experiments conducted were in compliance with ethical guidelines provided by these two authorities.
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