About the Authors

Manoel da Silva Filho

manoel@ufpa.br

Affiliation Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil

Daniel Valle Vasconcelos Santos

Affiliation Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil

Kauê Machado Costa

Current address: International Max Planck Research School for Neural Circuits, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: a patent application for the photooxidizer apparatus has been filed at the Intellectual Property Division of the Federal University of Pará. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSF KMC. Performed the experiments: MSF DVVS. Analyzed the data: MSF KMC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSF. Wrote the paper: MSF KMC.