About the Authors

Rafael Henrique Nóbrega

Affiliations Division of Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Laboratory of Cellular Biology, Department of Morphology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Caaj Douwe Greebe

Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Henk van de Kant

Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Jan Bogerd

Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Luiz Renato de França

lrfranca@icb.ufmg.br (LRdF); r.w.schulz@uu.nl (RWS)

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular Biology, Department of Morphology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Rüdiger W. Schulz

lrfranca@icb.ufmg.br (LRdF); r.w.schulz@uu.nl (RWS)

Affiliations Division of Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Research Group Reproduction and Growth in Fish, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RHN CDG JB LRdF RWS. Performed the experiments: RHN CDG HvdK. Analyzed the data: RHN CDG HvdK JB LRdF RWS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RHN LRdF RWS. Wrote the paper: RHN JB LRdF RWS. Molecular biology, primers design, qPCR, PCR: JB.