About the Authors

Paolo Fontana

Affiliation FEM-IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige (TN), Italy

Alessandro Cestaro

Affiliation FEM-IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige (TN), Italy

Riccardo Velasco

Affiliation FEM-IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige (TN), Italy

Elide Formentin

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Stefano Toppo

stefano.toppo@unipd.it

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PF ST. Performed the experiments: PF EF. Analyzed the data: PF AC RV EF ST. Wrote the paper: ST. Head of Genetics and Molecular Biology Department: RV.