About the Authors

Elena Tricarico

elena.tricarico@unifi.it

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica “Leo Pardi”, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

Luciana Borrelli

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Napoli, Italy

Francesca Gherardi

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica “Leo Pardi”, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

Graziano Fiorito

Affiliation Stazione Zoologica “Anton Dohrn”, Napoli, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ET FG GF. Performed the experiments: ET. Analyzed the data: ET LB. Wrote the paper: ET LB FG GF.