About the Authors
- Cristiano De Pittà
-
Contributed equally to this work with: Cristiano De Pittà, Alberto Biscontin
Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
- Alberto Biscontin
-
Contributed equally to this work with: Cristiano De Pittà, Alberto Biscontin
Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
- Alessandro Albiero
-
Affiliations Centro Ricerche Interdipartimentale Biotecnologie Innovative (C.R.I.B.I.), Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy, BMR Genomics, Padova, Italy
- Gabriele Sales
-
Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
- Caterina Millino
-
Affiliation Centro Ricerche Interdipartimentale Biotecnologie Innovative (C.R.I.B.I.), Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
- Gabriella M. Mazzotta
-
Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
- Cristiano Bertolucci
-
Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
- Rodolfo Costa
-
* E-mail: rodolfo.costa@unipd.it
Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
Competing Interests
All of the authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript declaring that they have no potential conflicts of interests. The co-author Alessandro Albiero is also affiliated to BMR Genomics (Padova) that is a commercial business. Moreover there are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: CDP GMM CB RC. Performed the experiments: CDP AB CM CB. Analyzed the data: CDP AB AA GS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM AA GS. Wrote the paper: CDP AB GMM CB RC.