About the Authors
- Domenico Iuso
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Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy
- Marta Czernik
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Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy
- Fiorella Di Egidio
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Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy
- Silvestre Sampino
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Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy
- Federica Zacchini
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Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy
- Michal Bochenek
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Affiliation National Research Institute of Animal Production, Balice, Poland
- Zdzislaw Smorag
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Affiliation National Research Institute of Animal Production, Balice, Poland
- Jacek A. Modlinski
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Affiliation Department of Experimental Embryology, Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec, Poland
- Grazyna Ptak
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* E-mail: ploi@unite.it (PL); gptak@unite.it (GP)
Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy
- Pasqualino Loi
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* E-mail: ploi@unite.it (PL); gptak@unite.it (GP)
Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy
Competing Interests
This work has been supported by several public (international and national) and private funding bodies: European Community Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013)/ERC grant agreement n° 210103; to GP: EU FP7-KBBE -2009-3 Programme, project n° 244356, NextGen, and PRIN MIUR (protocol n° 2009JE3CHM), plus private funds from the Bank Foundation Tercas (Teramo, Italy). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PL DI GP. Performed the experiments: DI MC FDE MB FZ SS. Analyzed the data: DI MC PL MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB ZS JM. Wrote the paper: PL DI.