About the Authors

Miguel Costa Leal

miguecleal@ua.pt (MCL); rjcalado@hotmail.com (RC)

Affiliations Department of Biology and CESAM, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah, Georgia, United States of America

João Puga

Affiliation Bio3 – Estudos e Projectos em Biologia e Valorização de Recursos Naturais, lda., Almada, Portugal

João Serôdio

Affiliation Department of Biology and CESAM, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Newton C. M. Gomes

Affiliation Department of Biology and CESAM, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Ricardo Calado

miguecleal@ua.pt (MCL); rjcalado@hotmail.com (RC)

Affiliation Department of Biology and CESAM, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RC MCL NCMG. Performed the experiments: MCL JP. Analyzed the data: MCL RC JP JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RC JS JP. Wrote the paper: MCL RC.