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"Conflict of interest Anna Wilkaniec declares that she has no conflict of interest. Magdalena Gąssowska declares that she has no conflict of interest. Grzegorz A. Czapski declares that he has no conflict of interest. Magdalena Cieślik declares that she has no conflict of interest. Grzegorz Sulkowski declares that he has no conflict of interest. Agata Adamczyk declares that she has no conflict of interest."

"Financial support was provided by the National Science Center grant 2013/09/D/NZ3/0135 to A.W. The sponsors of this study were not involved in the study design; in collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the paper for publication. The authors would like to thank Dr. Julita Nowakowska at Laboratory of Electron and Confocal Microscopy, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, for the invaluable help in performing TEM analysis."