About the Authors

Sarah Decembrini

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Massimiliano Andreazzoli

Affiliations Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa, Italy , AMBISEN Center, High Technology Center for the Study of the Environmental Damage of the Endocrine and Nervous Systems, Universita' degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Robert Vignali

Affiliations Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa, Italy , AMBISEN Center, High Technology Center for the Study of the Environmental Damage of the Endocrine and Nervous Systems, Universita' degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Giuseppina Barsacchi

Affiliations Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa, Italy , AMBISEN Center, High Technology Center for the Study of the Environmental Damage of the Endocrine and Nervous Systems, Universita' degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Federico Cremisi

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: cremisi@dfb.unipi.it

Affiliation Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

FC conceived and designed the experiments. SD and MA performed the experiments. SD, MA, RV, GB, and FC analyzed and discussed the data. MA and RV contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. FC wrote the paper.