About the Authors

Nicola Cavallari

Affiliations Department of Biology and Evolution, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein, Germany

Elena Frigato

Affiliation Department of Biology and Evolution, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Daniela Vallone

Affiliation Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein, Germany

Nadine Fröhlich

Affiliation Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein, Germany

Jose Fernando Lopez-Olmeda

Affiliations Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein, Germany, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

Augusto Foà

Affiliation Department of Biology and Evolution, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Roberto Berti

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology “Leo Pardi,” University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy

Francisco Javier Sánchez-Vázquez

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

Cristiano Bertolucci

bru@unife.it

Affiliation Department of Biology and Evolution, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Nicholas S. Foulkes

Affiliation Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: CB NSF FJSV AF NC. Performed the experiments: NC EF DV NF JFLO RB. Analyzed the data: CB DV NC EF JFLO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CB NSF RB AF FJSV. Wrote the paper: NSF CB NC DV FJSV.