About the Authors

Aakanksha Kalra

Contributed equally to this work with: Aakanksha Kalra, Jyotheeswara Reddy Edula, Puneet Kumar Gupta

Affiliation Malaria Research Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Jyotheeswara Reddy Edula

Contributed equally to this work with: Aakanksha Kalra, Jyotheeswara Reddy Edula, Puneet Kumar Gupta

Current address: Department of Molecular Protozoology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, 565–0871, Japan

Affiliation Malaria Research Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Puneet Kumar Gupta

Contributed equally to this work with: Aakanksha Kalra, Jyotheeswara Reddy Edula, Puneet Kumar Gupta

Affiliation Malaria Research Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Alok Kumar Pandey

Affiliation Malaria Research Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Virander S. Chauhan

virander@icgeb.res.in; viranderschauhan@gmail.com

Affiliation Malaria Research Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JRE PKG VSC. Formal analysis: AK PKG. Funding acquisition: VSC. Investigation:AK JRE PKG AKP. Methodology: AK JRE PKG VSC. Resources: VSC. Supervision: VSC. Validation: AK JRE PKG. Writing – original draft: AK VSC. Writing – review & editing: AK VSC.