About the Authors

Nelson E. Martins

Contributed equally to this work with: Nelson E. Martins, Vitor G. Faria

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Vitor G. Faria

Contributed equally to this work with: Nelson E. Martins, Vitor G. Faria

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Luis Teixeira

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Sara Magalhães

snmagalhaes@fc.ul.pt (SM); esucena@igc.gulbenkian.pt (ÉS)

Affiliation Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Élio Sucena

snmagalhaes@fc.ul.pt (SM); esucena@igc.gulbenkian.pt (ÉS)

Affiliations Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Lisboa, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES SM LT. Performed the experiments: NEM VGF. Analyzed the data: NEM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ES. Wrote the paper: NEM VGF LT SM ES.