About the Authors

Irene Pala

iapala@fc.ul.pt

Affiliation Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Manfred Schartl

Affiliation Physiologische Chemie I, Biozentrum, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Sólveig Thorsteinsdóttir

Affiliations Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Maria Manuela Coelho

Affiliation Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IP MS ST MC. Performed the experiments: IP. Analyzed the data: IP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS MC. Wrote the paper: IP MS ST MC.