**Author details**

Daniele Aparecida Matoso1 , Maelin da Silva<sup>2</sup> , Hallana Cristina Menezes da Silva3 , Eliana Feldberg4 and Roberto Ferreira Artoni5 \*

1 Department of Genetics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil

2 Department of General Biology, State University of Ponta Grossa, Paraná, Brazil

3 Program Postgraduate in Genetics, Conservation and Evolutionary Biology, National Amazon Research Institute, Manaus, Brazil

4 National Amazon Research Institute, Manaus, Brazil

5 Department of Structural and Molecular Biology and Genetics, State University of Ponta Grossa, Ponta Grossa, Brazil

\*Address all correspondence to: rfartoni@gmail.com

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