About the Authors

Sumit Kumar Chaturvedi

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India

Nida Zaidi

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India

Parvez Alam

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India

Javed Masood Khan

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India

Atiyatul Qadeer

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India

Ibrar Ahmad Siddique

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India

Shamoon Asmat

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India

Yusra Zaidi

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India

Rizwan Hasan Khan

rizwanhkhan@hotmail.com

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SKC RHK PA NZ. Performed the experiments: SKC NZ PA JMK SA YZ RHK. Analyzed the data: SKC NZ PA RHK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SKC IAS JMK RHK. Wrote the paper: SKC NZ PA AQ. Editing manuscript: AQ.