About the Authors

Edivaldo Herculano C. de Oliveira

ehco@ufpa.br

Affiliations Laboratório de Cultura de Tecidos e Citogenética, SAMAM, Instituto Evandro Chagas, Ananindeua, PA, Brazil, Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e Naturais, ICEN, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil, Cambridge Resource Centre for Comparative Genomics, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Marcella Mergulhão Tagliarini

Affiliation Programa de Pós Graduação em Neurociências e Biologia Celular, ICB, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil

Michelly S. dos Santos

Affiliation PIBIC – Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil

Patricia C. M. O'Brien

Affiliation Cambridge Resource Centre for Comparative Genomics, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith

Affiliation Cambridge Resource Centre for Comparative Genomics, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EHCdO PCMO MAFS. Performed the experiments: EHCdO MMT MSdS. Analyzed the data: EHCdO MMT MAFS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EHCdO MMT MSdS. Wrote the paper: EHCdO PCMO MAFS. FISH experiments and analysis: EHCdO MMT. classical Cytogenetics experiments and analysis: MMT MSdS.