About the Authors

Federico Perini

Contributed equally to this work with: Federico Perini, Anna Casabianca

Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Sciences, University of Urbino, Pesaro, Italy

Anna Casabianca

Contributed equally to this work with: Federico Perini, Anna Casabianca

Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Sciences, University of Urbino, Pesaro, Italy

Cecilia Battocchi

Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Sciences, University of Urbino, Pesaro, Italy

Stefano Accoroni

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy

Cecilia Totti

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy

Antonella Penna

antonella.penna@uniurb.it

Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Sciences, University of Urbino, Pesaro, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC FP AP. Performed the experiments: FP CB. Analyzed the data: FP AC CB CT SA AP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP. Wrote the paper: FP AC AP.