About the Authors

Shraddha Gandhi

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

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Mohali, Punjab, India

Sindhoora Puravankara

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Mohali, Punjab, India

Anish Kumar Mondal

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Mohali, Punjab, India

Aakanksha Chauhan

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Mohali, Punjab, India

Shashi Prakash Yadav

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Mohali, Punjab, India

Kausik Chattopadhyay

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kausik@iisermohali.ac.in (KC); arunika@iisermohali.ac.in (AM)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Mohali, Punjab, India

Arunika Mukhopadhaya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kausik@iisermohali.ac.in (KC); arunika@iisermohali.ac.in (AM)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Mohali, Punjab, India

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: KC is an academic editor in the Editorial Board of PLOS Pathogens. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.