About the Authors

Daniele Salvi

danielesalvi.bio@gmail.com

Affiliation CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Vairão, Portugal

Armando Macali

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze, Università “Roma Tre”, Rome, Italy

Paolo Mariottini

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze, Università “Roma Tre”, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS PM. Performed the experiments: AM PM. Analyzed the data: DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PM. Wrote the paper: DS PM. Read and approved the final manuscript: DS AM PM.