About the Authors

João Barroso-Batista

Contributed equally to this work with: João Barroso-Batista, Ana Sousa

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Ana Sousa

Contributed equally to this work with: João Barroso-Batista, Ana Sousa

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Marta Lourenço

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Marie-Louise Bergman

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Daniel Sobral

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Jocelyne Demengeot

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Karina B. Xavier

Affiliations Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Isabel Gordo

igordo@igc.gulbenkian.pt

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IG KBX JD. Performed the experiments: JBB AS ML MLB IG. Analyzed the data: JBB AS DS IG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IG KBX JD. Wrote the paper: IG JBB AS. Contributed to write the paper: KBX JD.