**Acknowledgements**

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NAS thanks FAPESP and WGB thanks CNPq for the scholarships. The authors wish to thank Prof. R.G.S. Berlinck (Instituto de Química de São Carlos - USP) for providing the marine fungal strains. ALMP is grateful to the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecno‐ lógico (CNPq) and Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) for financial support. The authors also wish to thank Professor Marcos Roberto de Vasconcellos Lanza (IQSC/USP, São Paulo, Brazil) for donating the commercial pesticides (profenofos).
