About the Authors

Nitin Kumar Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Nitin Kumar Singh, Britto Cathrin Pakkianathan, Muthukalingan Krishnan

Affiliation Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India

Britto Cathrin Pakkianathan

Contributed equally to this work with: Nitin Kumar Singh, Britto Cathrin Pakkianathan, Muthukalingan Krishnan

Affiliation Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India

Manish Kumar

Affiliation Advanced Instrumentation Research Facility, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Tulika Prasad

Affiliation Advanced Instrumentation Research Facility, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Mani Kannan

Affiliation Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India

Simone König

SK and M. Krishnan are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Integrated Functional Genomics, Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Muthukalingan Krishnan

Contributed equally to this work with: Nitin Kumar Singh, Britto Cathrin Pakkianathan, Muthukalingan Krishnan

profmkrish@gmail.com

SK and M. Krishnan are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NKS BCP M. Krishnan. Performed the experiments: NKS BCP SK M. Kumar M. Kannan TP. Analyzed the data: NKS BCP M. Kannan M. Kumar SK TP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M. Krishnan TP. Wrote the paper: NKS BCP M. Krishnan SK.