Sukumaran, Sandhya http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6177-469X
Sebastian, Wilson
Mukundan, Lakshmi P.
Menon, Muktha
Akhilesh, K. V.
Zacharia, P. U.
Gopalakrishnan, A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (MBT/GEN/25)
Article History
Received: 4 November 2019
Revised: 27 December 2019
Accepted: 20 January 2020
First Online: 28 February 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed by the authors.
: All necessary permits for sampling and observational field studies have been obtained by the authors from the competent authorities and are mentioned in the acknowledgements, if applicable. The study is compliant with CBD and Nagoya protocols.
: All data generated during this study are included in this published article. Information regarding sequences generated out of the present study has been deposited in NCBI, GenBank.
: All authors contributed to the study conception and design. SS, WS, and LPM carried out the laboratory work and data analysis. SS wrote the first draft of the manuscript. MM, AKV, and PUZ collected samples various locations of Indian coast and contributed in writing up the manuscript. AG has critically gone through the manuscript and provided suggestions. All authors read and approved the manuscript.