About the Authors

Serena Ferraresso

serena.ferraresso@unipd.it

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Silvia Bresolin

Affiliation Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Arianna Aricò

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Stefano Comazzi

Affiliation Department of Animal Pathology Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, University of Milano, Milano, Italy

Maria Elena Gelain

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Fulvio Riondato

Affiliation Department Veterinary Science, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Luca Bargelloni

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Laura Marconato

Affiliation Centro Oncologico Veterinario, Sasso Marconi, Italia

Geertruy te Kronnie

Affiliation Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Luca Aresu

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LA GTK SF LB LM. Performed the experiments: SF SB AA. Analyzed the data: SF LA SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LM GTK LB SC FR MEG. Wrote the paper: SF LA. Edited the paper: SB SF LA GTK.