Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to NYUAD’s Core Bioinformatics for analysis and computational assistance. We thank Mark Priest, Dain McParland, Noura Al-Mansoori, Anique Ahmad, and Ada Kovaliukaite for their participation in the fieldwork. We gratefully acknowledge the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi (permit reference number 20181823a), and the Oman Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, Director General of Nature Conservation (permit number: 6210/10/75), for providing permits for research related to this manuscript.