About the Authors

Arul Prakasam Peter

Contributed equally to this work with: Arul Prakasam Peter, Karthick Lakshmanan

Affiliation National Facility for Marine Cyanobacteria, Sub-Distributed Bioinformatics Centre (sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India), Department of Marine Biotechnology, School of Marine Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India

Karthick Lakshmanan

Contributed equally to this work with: Arul Prakasam Peter, Karthick Lakshmanan

Affiliation National Facility for Marine Cyanobacteria, Sub-Distributed Bioinformatics Centre (sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India), Department of Marine Biotechnology, School of Marine Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India

Shylajanaciyar Mohandass

Affiliation National Facility for Marine Cyanobacteria, Sub-Distributed Bioinformatics Centre (sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India), Department of Marine Biotechnology, School of Marine Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India

Sangeetha Varadharaj

Affiliation National Facility for Marine Cyanobacteria, Sub-Distributed Bioinformatics Centre (sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India), Department of Marine Biotechnology, School of Marine Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India

Sivasudha Thilagar

Affiliation Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India

Kaleel Ahamed Abdul Kareem

Affiliation Department of Botany, Jamal Mohammed College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India

Prabaharan Dharmar

Affiliation National Facility for Marine Cyanobacteria, Sub-Distributed Bioinformatics Centre (sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India), Department of Marine Biotechnology, School of Marine Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India

Subramanian Gopalakrishnan

Affiliation National Facility for Marine Cyanobacteria, Sub-Distributed Bioinformatics Centre (sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India), Department of Marine Biotechnology, School of Marine Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India

Uma Lakshmanan

lumaprabakar@yahoo.com

Affiliation National Facility for Marine Cyanobacteria, Sub-Distributed Bioinformatics Centre (sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India), Department of Marine Biotechnology, School of Marine Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: APP KL. Performed the experiments: APP KL SV SM UL PD. Analyzed the data: APP KL UL PD SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: APP KL UL PD ST KA. Wrote the paper: APP KL SV SM UL PD ST KA SG.