About the Authors

José R. Verdú

jr.verdu@ua.es

Affiliation I. U. CIBIO, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

José L. Casas

Affiliation I. U. CIBIO, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Jorge M. Lobo

Affiliation Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Catherine Numa

Affiliation I. U. CIBIO, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JRV JLC JML CN. Performed the experiments: JRV JLC. Analyzed the data: JRV JLC JML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JRV JLC. Wrote the paper: JRV JLC JML CN.