About the Authors

Adrian Patrut

apatrut@gmail.com

Affiliation Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Chemistry, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Roxana T. Patrut

Affiliation Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Pascal Danthu

Affiliations Cirad, UPR BSEF, Montpellier, France, Direction régionale du CIRAD, Antananarivo, Madagascar, DP Forêt et Biodiversité, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Jean-Michel Leong Pock-Tsy

Affiliation DP Forêt et Biodiversité, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Laszlo Rakosy

Affiliation Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Daniel A. Lowy

Affiliation Nova University, Alexandria Campus, Alexandria, Virigina, United States of America

Karl F. von Reden

Affiliation NOSAMS Facility, Dept. of Geology&Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AP. Performed the experiments: AP RTP PD JMLPT LR KFvR. Analyzed the data: AP RTP KFvR LR DAL. Wrote the paper: AP. Provided revisions: LR DAL.