About the Authors

Eva Terzibasi

Contributed equally to this work with: Eva Terzibasi, Dario Riccardo Valenzano

Affiliations Istituto di Neuroscienze del CNR, Pisa, Italy, Biology of Ageing, Fritz-Lipmann Institute for Age Research, Leibniz Institute, Jena, Germany

Dario Riccardo Valenzano

Contributed equally to this work with: Eva Terzibasi, Dario Riccardo Valenzano

Affiliations Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Mauro Benedetti

Affiliation International School of Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy

Paola Roncaglia

Affiliation International School of Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy

Antonino Cattaneo

Affiliations International School of Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy, European Brain Research Institute, Rome, Italy

Luciano Domenici

Affiliations Istituto di Neuroscienze del CNR, Pisa, Italy, School of Medicine, University of L'Aquila, Aquila, Italy

Alessandro Cellerino

acellerino@fli-leibniz.de

Affiliations Biology of Ageing, Fritz-Lipmann Institute for Age Research, Leibniz Institute, Jena, Germany, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ET DRV AC LD AC. Performed the experiments: ET DRV MB PR. Analyzed the data: ET DRV AC. Wrote the paper: ET DRV AC. Performed the field work: AC ET DRV.