About the Authors

Óscar M. Chaves

Affiliation Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Biociências, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Júlio César Bicca-Marques

jcbicca@pucrs.br

Affiliation Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Biociências, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OMC JCBM. Performed the experiments: OMC. Analyzed the data: OMC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OMC JCBM. Wrote the paper: OMC JCBM. Conceived and designed the experiments: OMC JCBM. Performed the experiments: OMC. Analyzed the data: OMC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OMC JCBM. Wrote the paper: OMC JCBM. Interpreted the data: OMC JCBM.