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Maelin da Silva1 \*, Daniele Aparecida Matoso2 , Vladimir Pavan Margarido3 , Eliana Feldberg4 and Roberto Ferreira Artoni5

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

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

3 Center for Biological and Health Sciences, Genetics Laboratory, State University of Western Paraná, Paraná, Cascavel, Brazil

4 National Amazon Research Institute, Manaus, Brazil

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

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

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