About the Authors

Maria Eugenia Ortiz

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus (UTSC), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Affiliation Centro de Referencia para Lactobacilos (CERELA)-CONICET, Chacabuco 145, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina

Juliana Bleckwedel

Affiliation Centro de Referencia para Lactobacilos (CERELA)-CONICET, Chacabuco 145, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina

Silvina Fadda

Affiliation Centro de Referencia para Lactobacilos (CERELA)-CONICET, Chacabuco 145, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina

Gianluca Picariello

Affiliation Istituto di Scienze dell' Alimentazione–CNR, Avellino, Avellino, Italy

Elvira M. Hebert

Affiliation Centro de Referencia para Lactobacilos (CERELA)-CONICET, Chacabuco 145, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina

Raúl R. Raya

Affiliation Centro de Referencia para Lactobacilos (CERELA)-CONICET, Chacabuco 145, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina

Fernanda Mozzi

fmozzi@cerela.org.ar

Affiliation Centro de Referencia para Lactobacilos (CERELA)-CONICET, Chacabuco 145, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MEO RR FM. Data curation: MEO. Formal analysis: MEO SF EH FM. Funding acquisition: FM. Investigation: MEO RR FM. Methodology: MEO JB SF EH. Project administration: FM. Resources: EH GP FM. Software: MEO. Supervision: RR FM. Validation: MEO. Visualization: MEO FM. Writing – original draft: MEO. Writing – review & editing: MEO RR FM.