About the Authors

Ameni Loulou

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Health and Environment, Laboratory of Bio-Aggressor and Integrated Protection in Agriculture, National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia

Maristella Mastore

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Laboratory of Comparative Immunology and Parasitology, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

Sara Caramella

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Laboratory of Comparative Immunology and Parasitology, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

Aashaq Hussain Bhat

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Sciences, Experimental Biology Research Group, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Maurizio Francesco Brivio

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

kallel.sadreddine@gmail.com (SK); maurizio.brivio@uninsubria.it (MFB); ricardo.machado@unine.ch (RARM)

Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Laboratory of Comparative Immunology and Parasitology, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

Ricardo A. R. Machado

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kallel.sadreddine@gmail.com (SK); maurizio.brivio@uninsubria.it (MFB); ricardo.machado@unine.ch (RARM)

Affiliation Faculty of Sciences, Experimental Biology Research Group, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Sadreddine Kallel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kallel.sadreddine@gmail.com (SK); maurizio.brivio@uninsubria.it (MFB); ricardo.machado@unine.ch (RARM)

Affiliation Department of Plant Health and Environment, Laboratory of Bio-Aggressor and Integrated Protection in Agriculture, National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.