About the Authors

Montserrat Hervella

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, University of the Basque Country, Bizkaia, Spain

Neskuts Izagirre

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, University of the Basque Country, Bizkaia, Spain

Santos Alonso

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, University of the Basque Country, Bizkaia, Spain

Rosa Fregel

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

Antonio Alonso

Affiliation Department of Biology, National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences, Madrid, Spain

Vicente M. Cabrera

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

Concepción de la Rúa

conchi.delarua@ehu.es

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, University of the Basque Country, Bizkaia, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH NI SA RF AA VMC CR. Performed the experiments: MH NI SA RF AA VMC CR. Analyzed the data: MH NI SA RF AA VMC CR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH NI SA RF AA VMC CR. Wrote the paper: MH NI SA RF AA VMC CR.