About the Authors

Aparecida das Dores Teixeira

Contributed equally to this work with: Aparecida das Dores Teixeira, Patricia D. Games, Benjamin B. Katz, John M. Tomich, José C. Zanuncio, José Eduardo Serrão

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Patricia D. Games

Contributed equally to this work with: Aparecida das Dores Teixeira, Patricia D. Games, Benjamin B. Katz, John M. Tomich, José C. Zanuncio, José Eduardo Serrão

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Benjamin B. Katz

Contributed equally to this work with: Aparecida das Dores Teixeira, Patricia D. Games, Benjamin B. Katz, John M. Tomich, José C. Zanuncio, José Eduardo Serrão

Affiliation Biotechnology Core Facility and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

John M. Tomich

Contributed equally to this work with: Aparecida das Dores Teixeira, Patricia D. Games, Benjamin B. Katz, John M. Tomich, José C. Zanuncio, José Eduardo Serrão

Affiliation Biotechnology Core Facility and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

José C. Zanuncio

Contributed equally to this work with: Aparecida das Dores Teixeira, Patricia D. Games, Benjamin B. Katz, John M. Tomich, José C. Zanuncio, José Eduardo Serrão

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil

José Eduardo Serrão

Contributed equally to this work with: Aparecida das Dores Teixeira, Patricia D. Games, Benjamin B. Katz, John M. Tomich, José C. Zanuncio, José Eduardo Serrão

jeserrao@ufv.br

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ADT JES. Data curation: ADT PDG BBK. Formal analysis: ADT PDG JMT JES. Funding acquisition: JES JCZ. Investigation: ADT PDG BBK. Project administration: JES. Resources: JES JCZ JMT. Supervision: JES. Visualization: ADT PDG JMT JCZ JES. Writing – original draft: JCZ JMT JES. Writing – review & editing: ADT JCZ JMT JES.