About the Authors

Andrea Di Giulio

andrea.digiulio@uniroma3.it

Affiliation Department of Science, University Roma Tre, Viale G. Marconi 446, I-00146 Rome, Italy

Emanuela Maurizi

Affiliation Department of Science, University Roma Tre, Viale G. Marconi 446, I-00146 Rome, Italy

Francesca Barbero

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Via Accademia Albertina 13, I-10123 Turin, Italy

Marco Sala

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Via Accademia Albertina 13, I-10123 Turin, Italy

Simone Fattorini

Affiliation CE3C—Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes / Azorean Biodiversity Group and Universidade dos Açores—Departamento de Ciências Agrárias, 9700-042 Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal

Emilio Balletto

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Via Accademia Albertina 13, I-10123 Turin, Italy

Simona Bonelli

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Via Accademia Albertina 13, I-10123 Turin, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ADG EM FB SB. Performed the experiments: ADG EM MS FB. Analyzed the data: FB SF MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ADG SB EB. Wrote the paper: ADG EM FB MS SB SF EB.