About the Authors
- Karnika Thakur
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Contributed equally to this work with: Karnika Thakur, Vandna Chawla
Affiliations Biotechnology Division, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India, Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
- Vandna Chawla
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Contributed equally to this work with: Karnika Thakur, Vandna Chawla
Affiliation Studio of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India
- Shammi Bhatti
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Affiliation Biotechnology Division, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India
- Mohit Kumar Swarnkar
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Affiliation Biotechnology Division, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India
- Jagdeep Kaur
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Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
- Ravi Shankar
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* E-mail: ravish@ihbt.res.in (RS); jmsgopal@ihbt.res.in (GJ)
Affiliation Studio of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India
- Gopaljee Jha
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* E-mail: ravish@ihbt.res.in (RS); jmsgopal@ihbt.res.in (GJ)
Affiliation Biotechnology Division, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Provided intellectual input in compilation of this manuscript: JK. Supervised the computational part of this study: RS. Carried out wet lab experiments associated with work: KT. Prepared cDNA libraries for Illumina sequencing: KT. Significantly contributed in acquisition and interpretation of data: KT. Performed reads generation, quality filtering, assembling, annotations, phylogenomics and associated computational study in this work: VC. Performed bioassays: SB. Assisted in cDNA library preparation for Illumina sequencing: SB. Performed Illumina sequencing run: MKS. Assisted in Illumina sample preparation work flow: MKS. Conceived and designed the experiments: GJ. Analyzed the data: KT VC GJ RS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GJ. Wrote the paper: KT VC GJ.