About the Authors

Carlos Eduardo G. Amorim

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, 10027, New York, NY, United States of America

Affiliations Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul 91501-970, Brazil, CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil, Brasília, 70040-020, Brazil

Victor Acuña-Alonzo

Affiliation Unit of Molecular Biology and Genomic Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 14000, Mexico

Francisco M. Salzano

Affiliation Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul 91501-970, Brazil

Maria Cátira Bortolini

Affiliation Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul 91501-970, Brazil

Tábita Hünemeier

hunemeier@gmail.com

Affiliation Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul 91501-970, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CEGA VA TH. Analyzed the data: CEGA TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FMS MCB. Wrote the paper: CEGA FMS MCB TH.