Muniz, F. L. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8404-2686
Ximenes, A. M. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2969-9620
Bittencourt, P. S. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2501-2203
Hernández-Rangel, S. M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9829-5980
Campos, Z. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0386-1618
Hrbek, T. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3239-7068
Farias, I. P. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1416-4351
Funding for this research was provided by:
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (BR)/CT-Amazon (575603/2008-9)
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (482662/2013-1)
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (470383/2007-0, 479179/2014)
Article History
Received: 27 December 2018
Accepted: 16 February 2019
First Online: 9 March 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no financial or non-financial conflict of interest.
: This study was approved by Embrapa ethics committee under the Permit no. 009/2016, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. All tissue samples of the caimans were colected under the license no. 13048-1, granted by the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA), and deposited in the CTGA (Coleção de Tecidos de Genética Animal) tissue collection at Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Amazonas, Brazil.