About the Authors

João Carneiro

Contributed equally to this work with: João Carneiro, Sara Duarte-Pereira

Affiliations IPATIMUP-Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Sara Duarte-Pereira

Contributed equally to this work with: João Carneiro, Sara Duarte-Pereira

Affiliation IPATIMUP-Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Luísa Azevedo

Affiliation IPATIMUP-Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

L. Filipe C. Castro

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), CIMAR Associate Laboratory, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Paulo Aguiar

Affiliation CMUP - Centro de Matemática da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Irina S. Moreira

Affiliation REQUIMTE - Rede de Química e Tecnologia, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

António Amorim

Affiliations IPATIMUP-Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Raquel M. Silva

raquelsilva@ua.pt

Affiliation IPATIMUP-Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RMS. Performed the experiments: JC SDP IM RMS. Analyzed the data: LA LFCC RMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PA AA. Wrote the paper: JC SDP LA LFCC PA IM AA RMS.