About the Authors

Javier A. Garza-Hernández

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier A. Garza-Hernández, Filiberto Reyes-Villanueva, Alberto M. Garcia-Munguia, Mario A. Rodríguez-Pérez

Affiliation Laboratorio de Biomedicina Molecular, Centro de Biotecnología Genómica, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Tamaulipas, México

Filiberto Reyes-Villanueva

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier A. Garza-Hernández, Filiberto Reyes-Villanueva, Alberto M. Garcia-Munguia, Mario A. Rodríguez-Pérez

frv65@hotmail.es

Affiliation Laboratorio de Biomedicina Molecular, Centro de Biotecnología Genómica, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Tamaulipas, México

Tanya L. Russell

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Health and Molecular Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Marieta A. H. Braks

Affiliation National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Alberto M. Garcia-Munguia

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier A. Garza-Hernández, Filiberto Reyes-Villanueva, Alberto M. Garcia-Munguia, Mario A. Rodríguez-Pérez

Affiliation Centro de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, carretera a la Posta, Jesús María, Aguascalientes, México

Mario A. Rodríguez-Pérez

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier A. Garza-Hernández, Filiberto Reyes-Villanueva, Alberto M. Garcia-Munguia, Mario A. Rodríguez-Pérez

Affiliation Laboratorio de Biomedicina Molecular, Centro de Biotecnología Genómica, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Tamaulipas, México

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FRV MARP JAGH. Performed the experiments: JAGH AMGM. Analyzed the data: FRV TLR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAHB. Wrote the paper: FRV TLR MAHB.