Nikhila Reshmi, MV
Rijin, K
Drisya, OK
Jose Priya, TA
Kappalli, Sudha
Funding for this research was provided by:
DST-INSPIRE (DST/INSPIRE Fellowship/2017/IF170696, dtd. 04.07.2018)
DST-RFBR (INT/RUS/RFBR/P-330, dtd. 10.01.2019)
DST-SERB (EMR/2016/001163/AS, dtd. 28.08.2017)
DST WOS-A (SR/WOS-A/LS-78/2018(G), dtd. 28.06.2019)
Article History
Received: 22 April 2021
Revised: 16 September 2021
Accepted: 21 September 2021
First Online: 18 December 2021
Declarations
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: No approval of research ethics committees was required to accomplish the goals of this study because experimental work was conducted with unregulated invertebrate species.
: All necessary permits for sampling and observational field studies have been obtained by the authors from the competent authorities. The study is compliant with CBD and Nagoya protocols.
: Findings from the data collection (parasitological indices and biodiversity indices) reported in this manuscript are submitted as supplementary files along with the manuscript. The genetic data reported in the manuscript are deposited in the GenBank database and the corresponding accession numbers are cited in the manuscript.
: MVNR worked on the topic, analysed and processed the data and made the first draft of the manuscript. KR & OKD contributed for sampling and analysis. TAJP & SK drew out the concept, supervised the work and finalized the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.