About the Authors

Gautam Chatterjee

Current address: Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Faculty Centre of Integrated Rural Development and Management, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Narendrapur, Kolkata, India

Affiliation Molecular Mycology Laboratory, Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore, India

Sundar Ram Sankaranarayanan

Affiliation Molecular Mycology Laboratory, Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore, India

Krishnendu Guin

Affiliation Molecular Mycology Laboratory, Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore, India

Yogitha Thattikota

Current address: Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, Université de Montréal, Station Centre-Ville, Montreal, Canada

Affiliation Molecular Mycology Laboratory, Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore, India

Sreedevi Padmanabhan

Current address: Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, India

Affiliation Molecular Mycology Laboratory, Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore, India

Rahul Siddharthan

Affiliation The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, C.I.T. Campus, Taramani, Chennai, India

Kaustuv Sanyal

sanyal@jncasr.ac.in

Affiliation Molecular Mycology Laboratory, Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GC SRS KG YT SP RS KS. Performed the experiments: GC SRS KG YT SP RS. Analyzed the data: GC SRS KG YT SP RS KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC SRS KG YT SP RS KS. Wrote the paper: GC SRS KG YT SP RS KS.