About the Authors

Barbara Correia

Affiliation Department of Biology & Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Luis Valledor

Affiliations Epiphysage Research Group, Biology of Organisms and Systems Department, University Institute of Biotechnology & University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain, Molecular Systems Biology Department, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Mónica Meijón

Affiliations Epiphysage Research Group, Biology of Organisms and Systems Department, University Institute of Biotechnology & University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain, Gregor Mendel Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

José Luis Rodriguez

Affiliation Epiphysage Research Group, Biology of Organisms and Systems Department, University Institute of Biotechnology & University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

Maria Celeste Dias

Affiliation Department of Biology & Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Conceição Santos

Affiliation Department of Biology & Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Maria Jesus Cañal

Affiliation Epiphysage Research Group, Biology of Organisms and Systems Department, University Institute of Biotechnology & University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

Roberto Rodriguez

Affiliation Epiphysage Research Group, Biology of Organisms and Systems Department, University Institute of Biotechnology & University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

Glória Pinto

gpinto@ua.pt

Affiliation Department of Biology & Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BC LV MM MCD CS GP. Performed the experiments: BC LV MM JLR MCD GP. Analyzed the data: BC LV MM MCD MJC RR GP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS MJC RR GP. Wrote the paper: BC LV MM GP.