About the Authors

Aakriti Gangwal

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

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Nitika Sangwan

Contributed equally to this work with: Nitika Sangwan, Neha Dhasmana

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Neha Dhasmana

Contributed equally to this work with: Nitika Sangwan, Neha Dhasmana

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Nishant Kumar

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi, India

Chetkar Chandra Keshavam

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Lalit K. Singh

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: InVitaGO Diagnostic GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Affiliation CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi, India

Ankur Bothra

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Microbial Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ajay K. Goel

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Biotechnology, Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India

Andrei P. Pomerantsev

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Microbial Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen H. Leppla

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

sleppla@niaid.nih.gov (SHL); ysinghdu@gmail.com (YS)

Affiliation Microbial Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yogendra Singh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

sleppla@niaid.nih.gov (SHL); ysinghdu@gmail.com (YS)

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.