About the Authors

Pradip Kumar Kar

karpradip@gmail.com (PKK); krish_paper@yahoo.com (KA)

Affiliation Parasitology Laboratory, Post Graduate Department of Zoology, Jhargram Raj College, Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India

Sanatan Murmu

Affiliation Parasitology Laboratory, Post Graduate Department of Zoology, Jhargram Raj College, Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India

Saswati Saha

Affiliation Molecular and Applied Mycology and Plant Pathology Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Veena Tandon

Affiliation Parasitology Laboratory, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India

Krishnendu Acharya

karpradip@gmail.com (PKK); krish_paper@yahoo.com (KA)

Affiliation Molecular and Applied Mycology and Plant Pathology Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PKK KA VT. Performed the experiments: PKK KA SM SS. Analyzed the data: PKK KA VT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PKK KA VT. Wrote the paper: PKK KA VT.