This project was developed during the master’s thesis of Thiago Alves. He was supervised by Pedro João Rodrigues, and Alice Pinto from the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB) and Arnaldo Cândido Junior and Pedro Luiz de Paula Filho from the Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR).
This research was funded through the 2013-2014 BiodivERsA/FACCE-JPI Joint call for research proposals, with the national funders FCT (Portugal), CNRS (France), and MEC (Spain).