About the Authors

Madalena C. Carneiro

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Catarina M. Henriques

Contributed equally to this work with: Catarina M. Henriques, Joana Nabais

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Joana Nabais

Contributed equally to this work with: Catarina M. Henriques, Joana Nabais

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Tânia Ferreira

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Tânia Carvalho

Histology and Comparative Pathology Laboratory, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Miguel Godinho Ferreira

mgferreira@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: MGF MCC. Performed the experiments: MCC CMH JN TF TC. Analyzed the data: MCC CMH JN TF TC MGF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MCC CMH JN TF TC MGF. Wrote the paper: MCC MGF.