About the Authors

Naseer Sangwan

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Pushp Lata

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Vatsala Dwivedi

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Amit Singh

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Neha Niharika

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Jasvinder Kaur

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Shailly Anand

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Jaya Malhotra

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Swati Jindal

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Aeshna Nigam

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Devi Lal

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Ankita Dua

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Anjali Saxena

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Nidhi Garg

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Mansi Verma

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Jaspreet Kaur

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Udita Mukherjee

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Jack A. Gilbert

Affiliations Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Scot E. Dowd

Affiliation MR DNA (Molecular Research LP), Shallowater, Texas, United States of America

Rajagopal Raman

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Paramjit Khurana

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Centre for Plant Genomics & Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

Jitendra P. Khurana

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Centre for Plant Genomics & Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

Rup Lal

ruplal@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Competing Interests

One of the co-authors in this manuscript is an employee in a private company (MR DNA Molecular Research LP, 503 Clovis Rd, Shallowater, Texas 79363 806-789-7984, United States of America) and this does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL JPK PK. Performed the experiments: RL NS PL VD RR. Analyzed the data: RL NS SED Jasvinder Kaur Jaspreet Kaur SA NN JM SJ AN DL AD A. Saxena NG MV UM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RL NS SED. Wrote the paper: RL NS JPK SED JAG. Sample Collection: RL NS PL VD A. Singh.