About the Authors

Karim Boumediene Laichoubi

Affiliation División de Genética, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Javier Espinosa

Affiliation División de Genética, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Miguel Angel Castells

Affiliation División de Genética, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Asunción Contreras

contrera@ua.es

Affiliation División de Genética, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC JE. Performed the experiments: KBL JE MAC. Analyzed the data: AC JE KBL MAC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AC JE. Wrote the paper: AC JE.