About the Authors

Emmanouil Liandris

Affiliation Department of Animal Science and Aquaculture, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Maria Gazouli

Affiliation Laboratory of Biology, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Margarita Andreadou

Affiliation Department of Animal Science and Aquaculture, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Leonardo A. Sechi

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, Microbiology, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Valentina Rosu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, Microbiology, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

John Ikonomopoulos

ikonomop@aua.gr

Affiliation Department of Animal Science and Aquaculture, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EL MG LS JI. Performed the experiments: EL MA VR. Analyzed the data: EL MG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG LS JI. Wrote the paper: EL MG JI. LS VR.