About the Authors

Júlia Santos

Affiliations Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, ICVS/3B's - PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

Maria João Sousa

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria João Sousa, Cecília Leão

mjsousa@bio.uminho.pt

Affiliation Molecular and Environmental Research Centre (CBMA)/Department of Biology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Cecília Leão

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria João Sousa, Cecília Leão

Affiliations Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, ICVS/3B's - PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CL MJS. Performed the experiments: JS MJS CL. Analyzed the data: JS MJS CL. Wrote the paper: JS MJS CL.