About the Authors

Edoardo Calizza

Affiliation Department of Environmental Biology, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Loreto Rossi

loreto.rossi@uniroma1.it

Affiliation Department of Environmental Biology, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Maria Letizia Costantini

Affiliation Department of Environmental Biology, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LR MLC. Performed the experiments: LR MLC. Analyzed the data: EC LR MLC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LR. Wrote the paper: EC LR MLC.