About the Authors

Talita Fernanda Augusto Ribas

Affiliation Laboratório de Citogenética, ICB, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Luis Reginaldo Ribeiro Rodrigues

Affiliation Laboratório de Genética e Biodiversidade, ICED, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Pará, Brazil

Cleusa Yoshiko Nagamachi

Affiliations Laboratório de Citogenética, ICB, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil, CNPQ Researcher, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Anderson José Baia Gomes

Affiliation Laboratório de Citogenética, ICB, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Jorge das Dores Rissino

Affiliation Laboratório de Citogenética, ICB, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Patricia Caroline Mary O'Brien

Affiliation Cambridge Resource Centre for Comparative Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Fengtang Yang

Affiliation Cytogenetics Facility, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith

Affiliation Cambridge Resource Centre for Comparative Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Julio Cesar Pieczarka

juliopieczarka@gmail.com

Affiliations Laboratório de Citogenética, ICB, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil, CNPQ Researcher, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TFAR JCP CYN LRRR. Performed the experiments: TFAR JDR JCP. Analyzed the data: TFAR JCP CYN AJBG LRRR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCP CYN MAFS. Wrote the paper: TFAR JCP CYN MAFS PCMO'B FY.