About the Authors

Alessandra Tancredi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Lombardy, Italy

Davide Papandrea

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Lombardy, Italy

Michele Marconcini

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Lombardy, Italy

Rebeca Carballar-Lejarazu

Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

rebecacarballar@gmail.com (RCL); mariangela.bonizzoni@unipv.it (MB)

Current address: Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Lombardy, Italy

Mauricio Casas-Martinez

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro Regional de Investigación en Salud Pública, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico

Eugenia Lo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Xiao-Guang Chen

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University of Guangzhou, China

Anna R. Malacrida

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Lombardy, Italy

Mariangela Bonizzoni

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

rebecacarballar@gmail.com (RCL); mariangela.bonizzoni@unipv.it (MB)

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Lombardy, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.