About the Authors

Siomar C. Soares

Affiliations Department of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, CLIB Graduate Cluster Industrial Biotechnology, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Artur Silva

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Eva Trost

Affiliations Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, CLIB Graduate Cluster Industrial Biotechnology, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Jochen Blom

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Rommel Ramos

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Adriana Carneiro

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Amjad Ali

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Anderson R. Santos

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Anne C. Pinto

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Carlos Diniz

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Eudes G. V. Barbosa

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Fernanda A. Dorella

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Flávia Aburjaile

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Flávia S. Rocha

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Karina K. F. Nascimento

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Luís C. Guimarães

Affiliations Department of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, CLIB Graduate Cluster Industrial Biotechnology, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Sintia Almeida

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Syed S. Hassan

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Syeda M. Bakhtiar

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Ulisses P. Pereira

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Lavras, Lavras, Brazil

Vinicius A. C. Abreu

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Maria P. C. Schneider

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Anderson Miyoshi

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Andreas Tauch

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Tauch, Vasco Azevedo

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Vasco Azevedo

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Tauch, Vasco Azevedo

vasco@icb.ufmg.br

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Read and gave insights about the manuscript: SCS AS ET JB RR AC AA ARS ACP CD EGVB FAD FA FSR KKFN LCG SA SSH SMB UPP VACA MPCS AM AT VA. Conceived and designed the experiments: AT VA. Performed the experiments: SCS ET JB RR AC AA ARS ACP CD EGVB FAD FA FSR KKFN LCG SA SSH SMB UPP VACA. Analyzed the data: SCS ET JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SCS AS ET JB AT VA. Wrote the paper: SCS AS MPCS AM AT VA.