About the Authors

Tiago Paixão

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ricardo B. R. Azevedo

razevedo@uh.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TP RBRA. Performed the experiments: TP RBRA. Analyzed the data: TP RBRA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TP. Wrote the paper: TP RBRA.