About the Authors

Corey Brelsfoard

Contributed equally to this work with: Corey Brelsfoard, George Tsiamis

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Natural Sciences, St. Catharine College, St. Catharine, Kentucky, United States of America

George Tsiamis

Contributed equally to this work with: Corey Brelsfoard, George Tsiamis

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Patras, Agrinio, Greece

Marco Falchetto

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italia

Ludvik M. Gomulski

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italia

Erich Telleria

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Uzma Alam

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Vangelis Doudoumis

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Patras, Agrinio, Greece

Francesca Scolari

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italia

Joshua B. Benoit

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Martin Swain

Affiliation Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, United Kingdom

Peter Takac

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Section of Molecular and Applied Zoology, Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava, Slovakia

Anna R. Malacrida

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italia

Kostas Bourtzis

K.Bourtzis@iaea.org (KB); serap.aksoy@yale.edu (SA)

Affiliations Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Patras, Agrinio, Greece, Biomedical Sciences Research Center Al. Fleming, Vari, Greece, Insect Pest Control Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna, Austria

Serap Aksoy

K.Bourtzis@iaea.org (KB); serap.aksoy@yale.edu (SA)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KB SA. Performed the experiments: CB GT MF LMG ET UA VD FS JBB MS. Analyzed the data: CB GT MF VD MS ARM KB SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CB GT MS PT ARM KB SA. Wrote the paper: CB GT ARM KB SA.