About the Authors

Gisela P. Bellini

Contributed equally to this work with: Gisela P. Bellini, Alejandro R. Giraudo, Vanesa Arzamendia

giselabellini@yahoo.com.ar

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Limnología (CONICET-UNL), Santa Fe, Argentina

Alejandro R. Giraudo

Contributed equally to this work with: Gisela P. Bellini, Alejandro R. Giraudo, Vanesa Arzamendia

Affiliations Instituto Nacional de Limnología (CONICET-UNL), Santa Fe, Argentina, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina

Vanesa Arzamendia

Contributed equally to this work with: Gisela P. Bellini, Alejandro R. Giraudo, Vanesa Arzamendia

Affiliations Instituto Nacional de Limnología (CONICET-UNL), Santa Fe, Argentina, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina

Eduardo G. Etchepare

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Corrientes, Argentina

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GPB ARG VA. Performed the experiments: GPB ARG VA EGE. Analyzed the data: GPB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GPB ARG VA EGE. Wrote the paper: GPB ARG VA EGE.