About the Authors

Baharul Islam Choudhury

baharulchoudhury@gmail.com

Affiliations Forest and Evolutionary Genomics Laboratory, and Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, Biology Department, Concordia University, Quebec, Canada, Québec Centre for Biodiversity Sciences, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Forestry, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology, Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh, India

Mohammed Latif Khan

Current address: Department of Botany, Dr. Harisingh Gour Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India

Affiliation Department of Forestry, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology, Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh, India

Selvadurai Dayanandan

Affiliations Forest and Evolutionary Genomics Laboratory, and Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, Biology Department, Concordia University, Quebec, Canada, Québec Centre for Biodiversity Sciences, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BIC MLK. Performed the experiments: BIC. Analyzed the data: BIC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLK. Wrote the paper: BIC MLK SD.