About the Authors

Giulia Simbula

Contributed equally to this work with: Giulia Simbula, Frederico M. Barroso

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

giulia.simbula@gmail.com (GS); frederico.m.barroso@gmail.com (FMB)

Affiliations CIBIO-InBIO Associate Laboratory, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal, BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Vairão, Portugal

Frederico M. Barroso

Contributed equally to this work with: Giulia Simbula, Frederico M. Barroso

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Conceptualization

giulia.simbula@gmail.com (GS); frederico.m.barroso@gmail.com (FMB)

Affiliations CIBIO-InBIO Associate Laboratory, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal, BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Vairão, Portugal, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Enerit Saçdanaku

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Research Center of Flora and Fauna, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania

Gabriel Ene

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ovidius University Constanta, Al. Universitatii, Campus B., Constanta, Romania

Geanina Fănaru

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Ovidius University Constanta, Al. Universitatii, Campus B., Constanta, Romania, Association Chelonia Romania, Pascani, Bucharest, Romania

Lekshmi B. Sreelatha

Roles Writing – review & editing, Investigation

Affiliations CIBIO-InBIO Associate Laboratory, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal, BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Vairão, Portugal, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Miruna-Gabriela Vizireanu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ovidius University Constanta, Al. Universitatii, Campus B., Constanta, Romania

Myrto Roumelioti

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations CIBIO-InBIO Associate Laboratory, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal, BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Vairão, Portugal

Nikoletta-Maria Boskovits

Roles Investigation

Affiliations CIBIO-InBIO Associate Laboratory, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal, BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Vairão, Portugal

Sabina E. Vlad

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Ovidius University Constanta, Al. Universitatii, Campus B., Constanta, Romania, Association Chelonia Romania, Pascani, Bucharest, Romania

Prem Aguilar

Roles Writing – review & editing, Investigation

Affiliations CIBIO-InBIO Associate Laboratory, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal, BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Vairão, Portugal, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Miguel A. Carretero

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing, Funding acquisition

Affiliations CIBIO-InBIO Associate Laboratory, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal, BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Vairão, Portugal, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.