About the Authors

Vitor Hugo Maia

Contributed equally to this work with: Vitor Hugo Maia, Camila Souza da Mata

Affiliation Instituto de Bioquímica Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Camila Souza da Mata

Contributed equally to this work with: Vitor Hugo Maia, Camila Souza da Mata

Affiliation Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Diretoria de Pesquisa Científica, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Luciana Ozório Franco

Affiliation Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Diretoria de Pesquisa Científica, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Mônica Aires Cardoso

Affiliation Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Diretoria de Pesquisa Científica, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sérgio Ricardo Sodré Cardoso

Affiliation Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Diretoria de Pesquisa Científica, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Adriana Silva Hemerly

Affiliation Instituto de Bioquímica Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Paulo Cavalcanti Gomes Ferreira

paulof@bioqmed.ufrj.br

Affiliation Instituto de Bioquímica Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Competing Interests

Some funding to this work was provided by the commercial company Nature. However, this funding was approved by the Minister of Culture under a law that gives tax exceptions to companies that support important collections such as libraries and so on. In our particular case funding was provided to our group to create a DNA bank of plant species of the Atlantic Rain Forest. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LOF MAC SRCS ASH PCGF. Performed the experiments: CSdM VHM LOF. Analyzed the data: VHM CSdM LOF PCGF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CSdM VHM LOF PCF. Wrote the paper: CSdM VHM LOF ASH SRSC MAC PCGF.