About the Authors

Merlyn Emmanuel

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal, India

Yumiko Saito Nakano

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Tomoyoshi Nozaki

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Sunando Datta

sunando@iiserb.ac.in

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ME SD. Performed the experiments: ME. Analyzed the data: ME SD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YSN TN. Wrote the paper: ME SD.