About the Authors

Stefano Montelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefano Montelli, Antonella Peruffo

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Legnaro (PD), Italy

Antonella Peruffo

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefano Montelli, Antonella Peruffo

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Legnaro (PD), Italy

Tomaso Patarnello

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Legnaro (PD), Italy

Bruno Cozzi

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Legnaro (PD), Italy

Enrico Negrisolo

enrico.negrisolo@unipd.it

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Legnaro (PD), Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AP EN. Performed the experiments: SM EN. Analyzed the data: EN. Wrote the paper: SM AP TP BC EN.