Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01749-6, published online 10 May 2017

In the original version of this Article, Nazura Usmani was incorrectly affiliated with ‘Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, Uttar Pradesh, India’. The correct affiliation is listed below:

Aquatic Toxicology Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, Uttar Pradesh, India.

This has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of this Article.