Correction to: The Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology (2020) 81:4

https://doi.org/10.1186/s41936-020-0142-y

Following publication of the original article (Zutshi et al. 2020), the authors Bela Zutshi and Aradhana Singh would like to remove their names from the published article. The updated author list is shown in this erratum.