About the Authors

Bahareh Torkzaban

Contributed equally to this work with: Bahareh Torkzaban, Amir Hossein Kayvanjoo, Arman Ardalan

Affiliation National Institute of Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, Tehran, Iran

Amir Hossein Kayvanjoo

Contributed equally to this work with: Bahareh Torkzaban, Amir Hossein Kayvanjoo, Arman Ardalan

Affiliation Department of Biology, School of Basic Science, University of Qom, Qom, Iran

Arman Ardalan

Contributed equally to this work with: Bahareh Torkzaban, Amir Hossein Kayvanjoo, Arman Ardalan

Affiliations National Institute of Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, Tehran, Iran, Department of Gene Technology, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Science for Life Laboratory, Solna, Sweden

Soraya Mousavi

Affiliation National Institute of Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, Tehran, Iran

Roberto Mariotti

Affiliation CNR, Institute of Biosciences & Bioresources, Perugia, Italy

Luciana Baldoni

Affiliation CNR, Institute of Biosciences & Bioresources, Perugia, Italy

Esmaeil Ebrahimie

Affiliations Institute of Biotechnology, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, Department of Genetics and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

Mansour Ebrahimi

hosseini@nigeb.ac.ir (MHM); mansour@future.org (ME)

Affiliation Department of Biology, School of Basic Science, University of Qom, Qom, Iran

Mehdi Hosseini-Mazinani

hosseini@nigeb.ac.ir (MHM); mansour@future.org (ME)

Affiliation National Institute of Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BT AK MHM LB ME. Performed the experiments: BT SM RM. Analyzed the data: BT AK AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHM LB ME EE. Wrote the paper: BT AK AA EE MHM.