Manoj, Ranju Ravindran Santhakumari
Latrofa, Maria Stefania
Mendoza-Roldan, Jairo Alfonso
Otranto, Domenico http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7518-476X
Article History
Received: 21 May 2021
Accepted: 30 June 2021
First Online: 22 July 2021
Declarations
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: The study was conducted in accordance with ethical principles (Declaration of Helsinki), written informed consent was obtained from the participants, and the research protocol was approved by the ethics committee of the University Hospital of Bari (n. 6394, prot. n., 0,044,469–23,062,020). Protocols for lizard collection and sampling were approved by the Commission for Bioethics and Animal Welfare of the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Bari and authorized by the Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea Protection of Italy (approval number 0016973/2018), the Societas Herpetologica Italica (approval number SHI-aut-ER-12–2018) and the “Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale” (approval number 41180).
: The authors declare no competing interests.