About the Authors

Aggeliki Saridaki

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Ioannina, Agrinio, Greece

Panagiotis Sapountzis

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Ioannina, Agrinio, Greece

Harriet L. Harris

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Philip D. Batista

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Jennifer A. Biliske

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Harris Pavlikaki

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Technological Educational Institute of Kalamata, Kalamata, Greece

Stefan Oehler

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming”, Vari, Greece

Charalambos Savakis

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming”, Vari, Greece, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Henk R. Braig

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Bangor, Bangor, Gwynedd, United Kingdom

Kostas Bourtzis

kbourtz@uoi.gr

Affiliations Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Ioannina, Agrinio, Greece, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming”, Vari, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KB HRB HLH CS. Performed the experiments: AS PS PDB JAB HP SO. Analyzed the data: AS PS PDB HLH HRB KB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KB HRB HLH CS. Wrote the paper: AS KB HRB HLH PDB CS SO.