About the Authors

Renata dos Santos Guarnieri

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

☯ These authors contributed equally to the preparation of this study, and both are considered first authors.

Affiliation Laboratory of Morphometry, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Disease, Institute of Biology, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Guilherme Sá de Oliveira

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

☯ These authors contributed equally to the preparation of this study, and both are considered first authors.

Affiliation Laboratory of Morphometry, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Disease, Institute of Biology, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Kaylaine Marques Ferreira

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Morphometry, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Disease, Institute of Biology, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Aline Penna-de-Carvalho

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Morphometry, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Disease, Institute of Biology, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Vanessa Souza-Mello

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Morphometry, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Disease, Institute of Biology, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sandra Barbosa-da-Silva

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sandra.barbosa.silva@uerj.br, sandrabarbosasilva@gmail.com

Affiliation Laboratory of Morphometry, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Disease, Institute of Biology, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Competing Interests

No authors have competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.