About the Authors

Marco Salvemini

marco.salvemini@unina.it (MS); hongyu.zhang@mail.hzau.edu.cn (HZ)

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Kallare P. Arunkumar

Affiliation Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, India

Javaregowda Nagaraju

† Deceased.

Affiliation Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, India

Remo Sanges

Affiliation Stazione Zoologica “Anton Dohrn”, Naples, Italy

Valeria Petrella

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Archana Tomar

Affiliation Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, India

Hongyu Zhang

marco.salvemini@unina.it (MS); hongyu.zhang@mail.hzau.edu.cn (HZ)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology and Institute of Urban and Horticultural Pests, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Weiwei Zheng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology and Institute of Urban and Horticultural Pests, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Giuseppe Saccone

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: MS GS RS HZ AT VP WZ KPA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ KPA. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: GS MS. Designed the project: GS JN. Designed the experiments: MS GS KPA. Prepared the fly crosses and extracted RNAs: MS VP. Performed bioinformatics analyses: MS. Helped with bioinformatics analyses and performed GO Enrichment analysis: RS. Helped with bioinformatics analyses: AT. Performed long ncRNA validation and qPCR analysis: VP. Provided input on the writing of the manuscript: KPA.