About the Authors

Lucia Cialabrini

Affiliation Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy

Silverio Ruggieri

Affiliation Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy

Marat D. Kazanov

Affiliation A. A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Leonardo Sorci

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy

Francesca Mazzola

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy

Giuseppe Orsomando

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy

Andrei L. Osterman

Affiliation Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Nadia Raffaelli

n.raffaelli@univpm.it

Affiliation Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NR ALO. Performed the experiments: LC MDK LS FM GO. Analyzed the data: SR NR ALO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LC SR LS MDK FM GO ALO NR. Wrote the paper: NR SR MDK ALO.