About the Authors

Enrico Baldan

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy

Sebastiano Nigris

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy

Chiara Romualdi

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy

Stefano D’Alessandro

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy

Anna Clocchiatti

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy

Michela Zottini

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy

Piergiorgio Stevanato

Affiliation Dipartimento DAFNAE - Department of Agronomy Food Natural Resources Animals and Environment, Legnaro (PD), Italy

Andrea Squartini

Affiliation Dipartimento DAFNAE - Department of Agronomy Food Natural Resources Animals and Environment, Legnaro (PD), Italy

Barbara Baldan

barbara.baldan@unipd.it

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EB SN BB. Performed the experiments: EB SN AC SD. Analyzed the data: EB CR AS BB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PS CR MZ. Wrote the paper: EB SD MZ AS BB.