About the Authors

Halley Caixeta Oliveira

halley@uel.br (HCO); leonardo@sorocaba.unesp.br (LFF)

Affiliation Department of Animal and Plant Biology, UEL–University of Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil

Renata Stolf-Moreira

Affiliation Department of Animal and Plant Biology, UEL–University of Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil

Cláudia Bueno Reis Martinez

Affiliation Department of Physiological Sciences, UEL–University of Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil

Renato Grillo

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Biology, UNICAMP—University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, Department of Environmental Engineering, UNESP–Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil

Marcelo Bispo de Jesus

Affiliation Nano-Cell Interactions Laboratory, Institute of Biology, UNICAMP—University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

Leonardo Fernandes Fraceto

halley@uel.br (HCO); leonardo@sorocaba.unesp.br (LFF)

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Biology, UNICAMP—University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, Department of Environmental Engineering, UNESP–Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HCO MBJ LFF. Performed the experiments: HCO RS RG. Analyzed the data: HCO RS CBRM RG MBJ LFF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HCO RS CBRM LFF. Wrote the paper: HCO RS CBRM RG MBJ LFF.