About the Authors

Stefanos Siozios

Current address: Research and Innovation Center, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michelle all’Adige, Italy

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

Panagiotis Ioannidis

Current address: Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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

Lisa Klasson

Affiliation Department of Molecular Evolution, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Siv G. E. Andersson

Affiliation Department of Molecular Evolution, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Henk R. Braig

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

Kostas Bourtzis

K.Bourtzis@iaea.org

Affiliations Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Western Greece, Agrinio, Greece, Biomedical Sciences Research Center Al. Fleming, Vari, Greece, Insect Pest Control Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

Kostas Bourtzis is a new member of the Editorial Board. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KB HRB SS. Performed the experiments: SS PI. Analyzed the data: KB SS PI LK SA HRB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KB HRB SA LK. Wrote the paper: KB SS LK SA HRB.