About the Authors

Manish Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Manish Kumar, Shadab Ahmad

Affiliation Advanced Instrumentation Research Facility, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Shadab Ahmad

Contributed equally to this work with: Manish Kumar, Shadab Ahmad

Affiliation Centre for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Ejaz Ahmad

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

Muheet Alam Saifi

Affiliation Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Rizwan Hasan Khan

rizwanhkhan@hotmail.com

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK SA EA MAS RHK. Performed the experiments: MK SA EA. Analyzed the data: MK SA EA RHK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK MAS RHK. Wrote the paper: MK SA EA.