About the Authors

Jitendra Kumar Sharma

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Skin Physiology Laboratory, Centre of Advanced Study, Department of Zoology, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Arunima

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Zoology Section, Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Usha Kumari

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Zoology Section, Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Swati Mittal

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

drsmittal73@gmail.com

Affiliation Skin Physiology Laboratory, Centre of Advanced Study, Department of Zoology, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Ajay Kumar Mittal

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Retired Professor and Former Head of the Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, 9, Mani Nagar, Kandawa, Varanasi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.