About the Authors

Alexandre S. Cristino

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandre S. Cristino, Erica D. Tanaka, Mercedes Rubio

Affiliation The Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Erica D. Tanaka

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandre S. Cristino, Erica D. Tanaka, Mercedes Rubio

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Passeig Maritim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain

Mercedes Rubio

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandre S. Cristino, Erica D. Tanaka, Mercedes Rubio

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Passeig Maritim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain

Maria-Dolors Piulachs

mdolors.piulachs@ibe.upf-csic.es (MDP); xavier.belles@ibe.upf-csic.es (XB)

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Passeig Maritim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain

Xavier Belles

mdolors.piulachs@ibe.upf-csic.es (MDP); xavier.belles@ibe.upf-csic.es (XB)

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Passeig Maritim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MDP XB. Analyzed the data: ASC EDT MR MDP XB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MDP XB. Wrote the paper: ASC EDT MR MDP XB. Conceived and designed the study: MDP XB. Performed the bioinformatic analyses: ASC. Performed the experiments and qPCR measurements: EDT MR. Reviewed critically the paper: MDP XB.