About the Authors

Kunal B. Shah

Contributed equally to this work with: Kunal B. Shah, Sudeshna Tripathy

Affiliation Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Sudeshna Tripathy

Contributed equally to this work with: Kunal B. Shah, Sudeshna Tripathy

Affiliation Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Hepziba Suganthi

Affiliation Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Medhamurthy Rudraiah

rmm@mrdg.iisc.ernet.in

Affiliation Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KBS ST MR. Performed the experiments: KBS ST HS MR. Analyzed the data: MR KBS ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MR. Wrote the paper: MR KBS ST.