About the Authors

Valerio Mezzasalma

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Zooplantlab, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy, FEM2-Ambiente s.r.l., Milan, Italy

Anna Sandionigi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Zooplantlab, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Ilaria Bruni

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Zooplantlab, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Antonia Bruno

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Zooplantlab, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Gianni Lovicu

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Agricultural Research Agency of Sardinia (AGRIS), Sassari-Fertilia, Sassari, Italy

Maurizio Casiraghi

Roles Conceptualization, Validation

Affiliation Zooplantlab, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Massimo Labra

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

massimo.labra@unimib.it

Affiliation Zooplantlab, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

I declare, on behalf of all authors, that no competing interests exist. The commercial affiliation of one of the authors (i.e., V.M.) with the commercial company FEM2-Ambiente s.r.l. does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.