Acknowledgements
We thank all those individuals who have provided samples or assisted
with collections across the range of S. catenatus over the past
25 years—this work would not be possible without their help. Many
individuals helped, but we especially thank Jeff Davis, Michael Dreslik,
Brian Fedorko, Tony Frazier, Kim Frolich, Dan Harvey, Matt Kowalski,
Greg Lipps, Chris Parent, Chris Phillips, Paul Pratt, Kent Prior, Kevin
Shoemaker, Michelle Villenueve, and Doug Wynn for their enthusiastic and
generous assistance with finding snakes and/or providing samples. We
thank Anna Brüniche-Olsen for
introducing us to the idea of ROHs and encouraging us to think about
analyzing them in our snakes, Scott Martin, Drew Schield and Todd Castoe
for help with data and analyses and Anna Brüniche-Olsen, J. Andrew
DeWoody, Gideon Bradburd, Robert Fitak, Katerina Guschanski, and
Christine Grossen for discussions and comments on the manuscript. We
also thank Kate Parsons and Carolyn Caldwell for their long‐time support
of our conservation genetics work on endangered snakes. Computational
analyses were performed on the Ohio Biodiversity Conservation
Partnership Computing Cluster and using resources provided by the Ohio
Supercomputer Center. This work was supported by the State Wildlife
Grants Program, administered jointly by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service and the Ohio Division of Wildlife, with funds provided by the
Ohio Biodiversity Conservation Partnership between The Ohio State
University and the Ohio Division of Wildlife. HLG was also supported by
National Science Foundation (USA) Grant DEB 1638872.
Data Availability Statement :
The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in
[to be determined] at http://doi.org/[doi], reference number
[to be determined].