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*Xin Rui Ong¹, Rosie Drinkwater², Samuel KS Cheong¹, Nalini Puniamoorthy³, Eleanor M Slade¹ (1. Tropical Ecology & Entomology Lab, Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), 2. Palaeogenomics Group, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich (Germany), 3. Reproductive Evolution Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore (Singapore))