About the Authors

Dinesh Kumar Sahu

Affiliation Fish Genetics and Biotechnology Division, ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Kausalyaganga, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

Soumya Prasad Panda

Affiliation Fish Genetics and Biotechnology Division, ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Kausalyaganga, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

Prem Kumar Meher

Affiliation Fish Genetics and Biotechnology Division, ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Kausalyaganga, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

Paramananda Das

Affiliation Fish Genetics and Biotechnology Division, ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Kausalyaganga, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

Padmanav Routray

Affiliation Aquaculture Production and Environment Division, ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Kausalyaganga, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

Jitendra Kumar Sundaray

Affiliation Fish Genetics and Biotechnology Division, ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Kausalyaganga, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

Pallipuram Jayasankar

Affiliation Fish Genetics and Biotechnology Division, ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Kausalyaganga, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

Samiran Nandi

eurekhain@yahoo.co.in

Affiliation Fish Genetics and Biotechnology Division, ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Kausalyaganga, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SN. Performed the experiments: DKS SN SPP PKM PD PR. Analyzed the data: DKS SN SPP PKM PD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PR. Wrote the paper: DKS SN SPP PKM PD PR JKS PJ. Overall monitoring, manuscript overview and editing: JKS PJ.