About the Authors

Thangadurai Thinesh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

Ramu Meenatchi

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

Ramasamy Pasiyappazham

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

Polpass Arul Jose

Roles Methodology, Resources

Current address: Marine Biotechnology and Ecology Division, CSIR—Central Salt and Marine Research Institute (CSIR-CSMCRI), Bhavnagar, India

Affiliation School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Muthamizh Selvan

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

George Seghal Kiran

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Food Science and Technology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

Joseph Selvin

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

josephselvinss@gmail.com, jselvin.mib@pondiuni.edu.in

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.