About the Authors

Tirumurugaan Krishnaswamy Gopalan

Contributed equally to this work with: Tirumurugaan Krishnaswamy Gopalan, Pradheepa Gururaj

Affiliation Department of Animal Biotechnology and Translational Research Platform for Veterinary Biologicals, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Pradheepa Gururaj

Contributed equally to this work with: Tirumurugaan Krishnaswamy Gopalan, Pradheepa Gururaj

Affiliation Department of Animal Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Ravi Gupta

Affiliation SciGenom Labs Pvt. Ltd., Kakkanad, Cochin, Kerala, India

Dhinakar Raj Gopal

dhinakarrajg@tanvuas.org.in

Affiliation Department of Animal Biotechnology and Translational Research Platform for Veterinary Biologicals, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Preeti Rajesh

Affiliation SciGenom Labs Pvt. Ltd., Kakkanad, Cochin, Kerala, India

Balachandran Chidambaram

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathology, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Aravindan Kalyanasundaram

Affiliation Department of Animal Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Raja Angamuthu

Affiliation Department of Animal Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Competing Interests

R. Gupta and R. Preeti, the authors of this manuscript, are employed by SciGenom Labs Pvt. Ltd., Cochin, and they have helped in processing the sample and some analysis of the authors' results. Hence this does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GDR KGT AR. Performed the experiments: GDR KGT GP. Analyzed the data: RG RP KGT KA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GDR KGT RG. Wrote the paper: GDR KGT RG. In-situ localization: KGT GP CB.