About the Authors

Francesca De Filippis

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca De Filippis, Antonietta La Storia

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, Italy

Antonietta La Storia

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca De Filippis, Antonietta La Storia

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, Italy

Francesco Villani

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, Italy

Danilo Ercolini

ercolini@unina.it

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DE FV. Performed the experiments: FDF ALS. Analyzed the data: FDF ALS DE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DE. Wrote the paper: DE.