About the Authors

Angeliki Gariou-Papalexiou

Contributed equally to this work with: Angeliki Gariou-Papalexiou, María Cecilia Giardini

Affiliation Biology Department, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

María Cecilia Giardini

Contributed equally to this work with: Angeliki Gariou-Papalexiou, María Cecilia Giardini

Affiliation Instituto de Genética EA Favret, Instituto Nacional Tecnología Agropecuaria, Hurlingham, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Antonios A. Augustinos

Affiliations Biology Department, University of Patras, Patras, Greece, Insect Pest Control Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Seibersdorf, Vienna, Austria

Elena Drosopoulou

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Silvia B. Lanzavecchia

Affiliation Instituto de Genética EA Favret, Instituto Nacional Tecnología Agropecuaria, Hurlingham, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jorge L. Cladera

Affiliation Instituto de Genética EA Favret, Instituto Nacional Tecnología Agropecuaria, Hurlingham, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Carlos Caceres

Affiliation Insect Pest Control Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Seibersdorf, Vienna, Austria

Kostas Bourtzis

Affiliation Insect Pest Control Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Seibersdorf, Vienna, Austria

Penelope Mavragani-Tsipidou

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Antigone Zacharopoulou

zacharop@upatras.gr

Affiliation Biology Department, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AZ PMT. Performed the experiments: AGP MCG ED PMT AZ. Analyzed the data: AGP MCG AAA AZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC KB AZ. Wrote the paper: AGP AAA ED PMT AZ. Participated in planning of the project: JLC. Contributed to the preparation of the final version of the manuscript: MCG SBL JLC CC KB.