About the Authors

Kumarasamy Thangaraj

Contributed equally to this work with: Kumarasamy Thangaraj, B. Prathap Naidu

thangs@ccmb.res.in (KT); lalji@ccmb.res.in (LS)

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

B. Prathap Naidu

Contributed equally to this work with: Kumarasamy Thangaraj, B. Prathap Naidu

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Federica Crivellaro

Affiliation Leverhulme Centre of Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Rakesh Tamang

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Shashank Upadhyay

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Varun Kumar Sharma

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Alla G. Reddy

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

S. R. Walimbe

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune, India

Gyaneshwer Chaubey

Affiliations Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

Toomas Kivisild

Affiliations Leverhulme Centre of Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

Lalji Singh

thangs@ccmb.res.in (KT); lalji@ccmb.res.in (LS)

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KT GC LS. Performed the experiments: BPN RT SU VKS AGR. Analyzed the data: KT GC BPN FC LG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KT AGR LS SRW. Wrote the paper: KT GC BPN TK.