About the Authors

Wilmar Bolívar-G

Affiliation Departamento de Biología, Programa de Posgrado y Grupo de Investigación en Ecología Animal, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Marta M. Antoniazzi

Affiliation Laboratório de Biologia Celular, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Taran Grant

taran.grant@gmail.com (TG); jared@butantan.gov.br (CJ)

Affiliation Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Carlos Jared

taran.grant@gmail.com (TG); jared@butantan.gov.br (CJ)

Affiliation Laboratório de Biologia Celular, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WBG TG. Performed the experiments: WBG MMA TG CJ. Analyzed the data: WBG MMA TG CJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WBG MMA TG CJ. Wrote the paper: WBG MMA TG CJ.