About the Authors

Vivekanand Tiwari

Affiliation Division of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G. B. Marg, Bhavnagar (Gujarat), India

Manish Kumar Patel

Affiliation Division of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G. B. Marg, Bhavnagar (Gujarat), India

Amit Kumar Chaturvedi

Affiliation Division of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G. B. Marg, Bhavnagar (Gujarat), India

Avinash Mishra

avinash@csmcri.org (AM); bjha@csmcri.org (BJ)

Affiliation Division of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G. B. Marg, Bhavnagar (Gujarat), India

Bhavanath Jha

avinash@csmcri.org (AM); bjha@csmcri.org (BJ)

Affiliation Division of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G. B. Marg, Bhavnagar (Gujarat), India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM BJ. Performed the experiments: VT MKP AKC. Analyzed the data: VT AM. Wrote the paper: AM VT.