About the Authors

Angelo Quaranta

a.quaranta@veterinaria.uniba.it

Affiliation Department of Animal Production, University of Bari, Italy

Vito Bellantuono

Affiliation Department of General and Environmental Physiology, University of Bari, Italy

Giuseppe Cassano

Affiliation Department of General and Environmental Physiology, University of Bari, Italy

Claudio Lippe

Affiliation Department of General and Environmental Physiology, University of Bari, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AQ VB GC CL. Performed the experiments: AQ VB GC CL. Analyzed the data: AQ VB GC CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AQ VB GC CL. Wrote the paper: AQ VB GC CL.