Agarwal, Ishan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9734-5379
Khandekar, Akshay
Giri, Varad B.
Ramakrishnan, Uma
Karanth, K. Praveen
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Science Foundation (DEB 0844523)
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (SR/SO/AS-57/2009)
Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India (2012/21/06/BRNS)
Article History
Received: 6 August 2018
Revised: 9 January 2019
Accepted: 12 February 2019
First Online: 5 March 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: No live animals were used in experiments, and specimens were collected with permits from the Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu forest Departments, besides from private land and other non-forest areas. Specimens collected for this study were euthanized with halothane, tissue vouchers stored in ethanol and whole specimens fixed with formalin. This study was approved by the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore (NCBS) animal ethics committee.