About the Authors

Alessandro Bartolomucci

alessandro.bartolomucci@unipr.it

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary and Functional Biology, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Aderville Cabassi

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Health Sciences, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Paolo Govoni

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Graziano Ceresini

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Cheryl Cero

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary and Functional Biology, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Daniela Berra

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary and Functional Biology, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Harold Dadomo

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary and Functional Biology, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Paolo Franceschini

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary and Functional Biology, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Giacomo Dell'Omo

Affiliation Ornis Italica, Rome, Italy

Stefano Parmigiani

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefano Parmigiani, Paola Palanza

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary and Functional Biology, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Paola Palanza

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefano Parmigiani, Paola Palanza

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary and Functional Biology, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Competing Interests

GD supported the development of the automated system for activity measurement in collaboration with Technosmart.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB SP PP. Performed the experiments: AB AC PG GC CC DB HD PF. Analyzed the data: AB AC PG GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GD. Wrote the paper: AB.