About the Authors

Theerthankar Das

Contributed equally to this work with: Theerthankar Das, Shama Sehar

theerthankar_das11@rediffmail.com

Affiliation Centre for Marine BioInnovation, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Shama Sehar

Contributed equally to this work with: Theerthankar Das, Shama Sehar

Affiliations Centre for Marine BioInnovation, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Leena Koop

Affiliation Centre for Marine BioInnovation, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Yie Kuan Wong

Affiliation Centre for Marine BioInnovation, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Safia Ahmed

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Khawar Sohail Siddiqui

Affiliation School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Mike Manefield

Affiliation Centre for Marine BioInnovation, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TD SA LK YW MM. Performed the experiments: SS TD KS YW. Analyzed the data: SS TD KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS TD KS MM. Wrote the paper: SS TD MM.