About the Authors

Shreyas V. Kumbhare

Contributed equally to this work with: Shreyas V. Kumbhare, Dhiraj P. Dhotre

Affiliation Microbial Culture Collection, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, 411007, Maharashtra, India

Dhiraj P. Dhotre

Contributed equally to this work with: Shreyas V. Kumbhare, Dhiraj P. Dhotre

Affiliation Microbial Culture Collection, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, 411007, Maharashtra, India

Sunil Kumar Dhar

Affiliation Microbial Culture Collection, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, 411007, Maharashtra, India

Kunal Jani

Affiliation Microbial Culture Collection, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, 411007, Maharashtra, India

Deepak A. Apte

Affiliation Conservation Department, Bombay Natural History Society, Hornbill House, Mumbai, 400 001, India

Yogesh S. Shouche

Affiliation Microbial Culture Collection, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, 411007, Maharashtra, India

Avinash Sharma

avinash@nccs.res.in

Affiliation Microbial Culture Collection, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, 411007, Maharashtra, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS YSS DAA. Performed the experiments: SKD KJ SVK. Analyzed the data: SVK DPD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DAA YSS DPD. Wrote the paper: SVK DPD AS YSS DAA.