About the Authors

Rajeev Raman

Contributed equally to this work with: Rajeev Raman, V. Rajanikanth

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Hyderabad, India

V. Rajanikanth

Contributed equally to this work with: Rajeev Raman, V. Rajanikanth

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Hyderabad, India

Raghavan U. M. Palaniappan

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Yi-Pin Lin

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Hongxuan He

Affiliations Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Sean P. McDonough

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Yogendra Sharma

yogendra@ccmb.res.in (YS); yc42@cornell.edu (YC)

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Hyderabad, India

Yung-Fu Chang

yogendra@ccmb.res.in (YS); yc42@cornell.edu (YC)

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have a grant from a private funding agency (BRDC). However, this does not alter their adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RR VR RUP YPL SPM YS YFC. Performed the experiments: RR VR. Analyzed the data: RR VR YS. Wrote the paper: RR YS YFC.