About the Authors

Larissa Araguaia Monteiro de Castro

Contributed equally to this work with: Larissa Araguaia Monteiro de Castro, Gabriela Cristina Küppers

Affiliation Laboratório de Biologia Molecular “Francisco Mauro Salzano”, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil

Gabriela Cristina Küppers

Contributed equally to this work with: Larissa Araguaia Monteiro de Castro, Gabriela Cristina Küppers

Affiliation División Invertebrados, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Noemi Mendes Fernandes

Affiliation Laboratório de Biologia Evolutiva Teórica e Aplicada, Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Martin Schlegel

Affiliation Molecular Evolution and Animal Systematics, Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Thiago da Silva Paiva

tpaiva@biologia.ufrj.br

Affiliations Laboratório de Biologia Molecular “Francisco Mauro Salzano”, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil, Laboratory of Evolutionary Protistology, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LAMdC TdSP. Performed the experiments: LAMdC GCK NMF MS TdSP. Analyzed the data: LAMdC GCK NMF MS TdSP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GCK MS TdSP. Wrote the paper: LAMdC GCK TdSP.