About the Authors

Mario Santoro

marisant@libero.it, mario.santoro@izsmportici.it

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno, Portici (Naples), Italy

Nicola D’Alessio

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno, Portici (Naples), Italy

Anna Cerrone

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno, Portici (Naples), Italy

Maria Gabriella Lucibelli

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno, Portici (Naples), Italy

Giorgia Borriello

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno, Portici (Naples), Italy

Gaetano Aloise

Affiliation Museo di Storia Naturale della Calabria e Orto Botanico, Università della Calabria, Rende (Cosenza), Italy

Clementina Auriemma

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno, Portici (Naples), Italy

Nunzia Riccone

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno, Portici (Naples), Italy

Giorgio Galiero

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno, Portici (Naples), Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MS ND AC GG. Data curation: MS. Formal analysis: MS. Funding acquisition: GG. Investigation: MS ND AC MGL CA NR GB. Methodology: MS. Project administration: MS GG. Resources: MS ND AC GA. Software: MS. Supervision: MS GG. Validation: MS. Visualization: MS. Writing – original draft: MS. Writing – review & editing: MS.