La Rosa, Chiara
Parolisi, Roberta
Palazzo, Ottavia
Lévy, Frederic
Meurisse, Maryse
Bonfanti, Luca http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1469-8898
Funding for this research was provided by:
MIUR-PRIN2015 (grant 2015Y5W9YP)
Article History
Received: 9 January 2018
Accepted: 2 July 2018
First Online: 6 July 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no competing financial interests.
: All experiments have been carried out on fixed tissue material obtained from institutions which hold the appropriate authorizations. Dolphin tissues were stored in the Mediterranean Marine Mammal Tissue Bank (MMMTB) of the University of Padova, Italy, a CITES-recognized (IT020) research center and tissue bank, sponsored by the Italian Ministry of the Environment and the University of Padova, with the aim of harvesting tissues from wild and captive cetaceans and distributing them to qualified research centers worldwide. Sheep tissues came from the INRA research center (Nouzilly; Indre et Loire, France—ethical permissions reported in Brus et al.CitationRef removed).
: Not applicable.