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.