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The authors thank Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, for financial support to CQB through the strategic project UID/MULTI/00612/2013. ASM thanks the financial support of FCT for the Post-doc grant SFRH/BPD/86693/2012. J. Conceição is acknowledged for the illustration of **Figure 1**.

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