About the Authors

Mónica Serrano

Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Estação Agronómica Nacional, Oeiras, Portugal

JinXin Gao

Current address: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

João Bota

Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Estação Agronómica Nacional, Oeiras, Portugal

Ashley R. Bate

Affiliation New York University, Department of Biology, New York, New York, United States of America

Jeffrey Meisner

Affiliation Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Patrick Eichenberger

Affiliation New York University, Department of Biology, New York, New York, United States of America

Charles P. Moran Jr.

cmoran@emory.edu (CPM); aoh@itqb.unl.pt (AOH)

Affiliation Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Adriano O. Henriques

cmoran@emory.edu (CPM); aoh@itqb.unl.pt (AOH)

Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Estação Agronómica Nacional, Oeiras, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS CPM PE AOH. Performed the experiments: MS JG JB ARB. Analyzed the data: MS JG JB ARB CPM PE AOH. Wrote the paper: MS CPM PE AOH.