About the Authors

Digvijay Verma

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

Yutaka Kawarabayasi

Affiliations Laboratory for Functional Genomics of Extremophiles, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Institute for Hearth Research, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Hyogo, Japan

Kentaro Miyazaki

Affiliations Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Hokkaido, Japan, Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hokkaido, Japan

Tulasi Satyanarayana

tsnarayana@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have no competing interests to declare.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DV YK KM TS. Performed the experiments: DV YK KM TS. Analyzed the data: DV YK KM TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DV YK KM TS. Wrote the paper: DV YK KM TS.