About the Authors

Chiara Manfrin

Contributed equally to this work with: Chiara Manfrin, Moshe Tom

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Moshe Tom

Contributed equally to this work with: Chiara Manfrin, Moshe Tom

Affiliation Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa, Israel

Gianluca De Moro

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Marco Gerdol

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Corrado Guarnaccia

Affiliation ICGEB, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, AREA Science Park, Trieste, Italy

Alessandro Mosco

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Alberto Pallavicini

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Piero Giulio Giulianini

giuliani@units.it

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CM PGG MT AM AP. Performed the experiments: CM MT AM. Analyzed the data: CM MT GDM MG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PGG CG AM AP. Wrote the paper: CM MT AM.