About the Authors

Amit Kumar Chaturvedi

Affiliation Discipline of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India

Manish Kumar Patel

Affiliation Discipline of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India

Avinash Mishra

avinash@csmcri.org (AM); bjha@csmcri.org (BJ)

Affiliation Discipline of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India

Vivekanand Tiwari

Affiliation Discipline of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India

Bhavanath Jha

avinash@csmcri.org (AM); bjha@csmcri.org (BJ)

Affiliation Discipline of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM BJ. Performed the experiments: AKC MKP VT. Analyzed the data: AM AKC. Wrote the paper: AKC AM.