About the Authors

Pascual López-López

Pascual.Lopez@uv.es

Affiliation Vertebrates Zoology Research Group, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Maurizio Sarà

Affiliation Department of Environmental Biology and Biodiversity, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Massimiliano Di Vittorio

Affiliation Department of Environmental Biology and Biodiversity, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PLL. Performed the experiments: PLL MDV. Analyzed the data: PLL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PLL MS MDV. Wrote the paper: PLL.