Tania E. Sakanaka: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SoftwareRole: SupervisionRole: Writing
– original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Jaspret Gill: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: Methodology
Martin D. Lakie: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole:
ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review
& editing
Raymond F. Reynolds:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5031-3473
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole: SupervisionRole:
ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review
& editing
Riccardo Di Giminiani: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
20
March
2018
Publication date Collection: 2018
Volume: 13
Issue: 3
Electronic Location Identifier: e0193850
Affiliations
[001]School of Sport, Exercise & Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham,
West Midlands, United Kingodm
University of L'Aquila, ITALY
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-17-21142
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193850
PMC ID: 5860743
PubMed ID: 29558469
SO-VID: ec6cdd26-3032-4a48-a051-540e987b8f47
Copyright © © 2018 Sakanaka et al
License:
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the original author and source are credited.
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000268, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council;
Award ID: BB/L02103X/1
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5031-3473
Raymond F. Reynolds
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000855, University of Birmingham;
Award ID: PhD Scholarship for Research Excellence from Brazil
Award Recipient
:
Tania E. Sakanaka
This work was funded by a grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research
Council (BB/LO2103X/1), and also a PhD scholarship for Research Excellence for Brazilian
students from the University of Birmingham PhD Scholarship for Research Excellence
from Brazil to Dr. Sakanaka. The funders had no role in study design, data collection
and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. There was no
additional external funding received for this study.
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