About the Authors

Malliya gounder Palanichamy

empalani@yahoo.com (MgP); zhangyp1@263.net.cn (YPZ)

Affiliation Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bioresources, Yunnan University, Kunming, China

Bikash Mitra

Affiliations Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bioresources, Yunnan University, Kunming, China, Cellular Immunology Laboratory, University of North Bengal, Raja Rammohanpur, Darjeeling, India

Monojit Debnath

Current address: Department of Human Genetics, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Suraksha Agrawal

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India

Tapas Kumar Chaudhuri

Affiliation Cellular Immunology Laboratory, University of North Bengal, Raja Rammohanpur, Darjeeling, India

Ya-Ping Zhang

empalani@yahoo.com (MgP); zhangyp1@263.net.cn (YPZ)

Affiliations Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bioresources, Yunnan University, Kunming, China, State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MGP. Performed the experiments: MGP BM MD. Analyzed the data: MGP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YPZ TKC SA. Wrote the paper: MGP. Assisted with drafting the manuscript: MD.