Acknowledgements

This work was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through national funds and by FEDER through COMPETE by the grants UID/FIS/04434/2013 & POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007672 and PTDC/FIS-AST/3214/2012 & FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-029170.

This work acknowledges support by European Community Programme ([FP7/2007-2013]) under grant agreement No. PIRSES-GA-2013-612701 (SELGIFS). Jean Michel Gomes was supported by the fellowship SFRH/BPD/66958/2009 funded by FCT (Portugal) and POPH/FSE (EC) and by the fellowship CIAAUP-04/2016-BPD in the context of the FCT project UID/FIS/04434/2013 & POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007672. Polychronis Papaderos was supported by FCT through Investigador FCT contract IF/01220/2013/CP1191/CT0002.

We thank Mayanna Gomes for the invaluable discussions related to the field of genetics and Leandro Cardoso  for tests of FADO.

The graphical output (encapsulated postscript) from FADO is produced with PGplot (http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot), for which we would like to thank Prof. T.J. Pearson and several people who have contributed to the development of this graphics package. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The FADO logo was conceived by Mayanna Karla Gomes and further processed into a digital format by LOGOTIPO (https://www.logotipo.pt/).