We thank all private and public culture collection for donating and participating in this study especially Donna Dinh for kindly donating samples from CCCM, Rebecca Gast and Dawn Moran for donating Antarctic dinoflagellate samples, Dion Frampton from ANACC as well as Cecilia Rad-Menendez, Rad-Menendez, ChristineN. Joanne Field from Campbell and Joanne Fieldion and DNA preparation.
We are indebted to the family investigated in this study whose members have kindly donated samples for research.
Thanks are due to Comune di Padova for kindly authorizing sampling on the city walls and to Comitato Mura di Padova, in particular Fabio Bordignon, for providing information on the building phases and past conservation interventions.
We are grateful to Dr. K. Babu Rao of the Lam Farm, Guntur, Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University (Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India) for kindly providing samples of bovine semen.
The investigators would like to thank all people who directly or indirectly contributed to the successful completion of this study: the Ministry of Public Health of Cameroon, the Yaoundé Central Hospital blood bank for kindly providing samples, and all laboratory staffs.
We would like to thank Adriana A. Piquet for technical assistance, Dr. Hugo A. Rocha for kindly providing samples of H. wrightii grown at high salinities, Dr. Mauro S. G. Pavao for a critical review of the manuscript, and Dr. Ana Maria Landeira Fernandez for crucial insights and ideas to this publication.
We want to thank Mrs Gabriella Porcai for technical assistance and Dr. Riccardo Fortunati who kindly provided samples.
The authors would like to thank Dr. Cramer (Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC) for kindly providing samples of vitamin D-treated primary prostate epithelial cells for our RT-PCR validation work.
Maribel Gómez; Naiara Telletxea and Nahikari Pastoriza at the Basque Biobank for isolating DNA samples; and Dr. Carmen Ayuso for kindly providing control samples.
The authors are grateful to the CNR-IOM in Trieste for kindly providing the sample of images from the SEM instrument used in this work.
We thank Heinz-Johannes Buhr (Department of General, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany) and Harald Stein, Anke Sommerfeld, Dido Lenze (Institute for Pathology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany) for kindly providing clinical sample material.
