ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like to thank the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute
and the Office of Graduate Studies for funding associated with ddRAD
sequencing, and Marlon Cobos for advice regarding niche modeling. We are
grateful to all of the people and institutions that lent tissues and
extractions for this study, including: Lauren Scheinberg at California
Academy of Sciences, Seth Parker at Louisiana State University Museum of
Natural Science, Breda Zimkus at Museum of Comparative Zoology, and
Addison Wynn at United States National Museum of Natural History. The
Brown Lab was supported by the National Science Foundation (DEB 1654388
and 1557053) during the course of genomic data collection at KU. Partial
funding for Illumina sequencing in this study came from the Docking
Faculty Scholar Fund of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the
Biodiversity Institute of the University of Kansas. EG and CK thank
their field companions W.M. Muninga, M.M. Aristote, M. Zigabe, A.M.
Marcel, M. Luhumyo, J., and F. Akuku, F.I. Alonda, and the late A.
M’Mema. The Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles and Institut
Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature provided project support and
permits. EG was supported by the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund, an IUCN/SSC
Amphibian Specialist Group Seed Grant, K. Reed, M.D., research funds
from the Department of Biology at Villanova University, two National
Geographic Research and Exploration Grants (nos. 8556-08 and
WW-R018-17), the University of Texas at El Paso, and the US National
Science Foundation (DEB-1145459). PMH thanks the KU Biodiversity
Institute for postdoctoral fellowship support. MOR received funding from
the German Research Foundation (DFG VE 183/4-1 & RO 3064/1-2) and the
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF-Project W08 BIOTA-West,
01LC0017). JP is thankful to Michael Barej as well as to D. Langlois,
Rene, S. Mazumdar, M. Machon, D. Maougnan, R. Konomou, Marcel, A. Oumar,
Mohamed, Ibrahim, Sao Papa, Bayo, Pepe, Daniel, Samuel, Fulton for
assistance with field work as well as the Guinean authorities for all
necessary permits.