About the Authors

Silvia Bongiorni

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia Bongiorni, Giordano Mancini

Affiliation Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest Systems, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

Giordano Mancini

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia Bongiorni, Giordano Mancini

g.mancini@caspur.itgiordano.mancin@sns.it

Affiliation CASPUR, Inter-University Consortium for the Application of Super-Computing for Universities and Research, Rome, Italy

Giovanni Chillemi

Affiliation CASPUR, Inter-University Consortium for the Application of Super-Computing for Universities and Research, Rome, Italy

Lorraine Pariset

Affiliation Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest Systems, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

Alessio Valentini

Affiliation Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest Systems, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB LP AV GM. Performed the experiments: SB. Analyzed the data: GM. Wrote the paper: GM SB AV. Collected samples and performed genotyping: SB LP. Designed the software specifically developed for the work and performed statistical analysis: GM. Reviewed the paper: LP GC.