Progress in Microbes and Molecular Biology

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Co-authors and corresponding authors should contribute to the research work and the submitted manuscript. All authors are collectively responsible for the published work, and authorship should be based on substantial contributions to the research.

Authors should avoid conflicts of interest or the appearance of conflicts of interest throughout the research process, such as personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial conflicts. Authors must address any queries about potential conflicts of interest with PMMB's Editor, who reserves the right to request further information before reviewing the paper.

Sequence and expression data must be deposited in GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ, SRA/GEO, UniProt, or RCSB PDB prior to submission. Model summary

New sequence information must be deposited to the appropriate database prior to submission of the manuscript.

Ethical approval for this study was obtained from – NAME OF ETHICS COMMITTEE OR INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD (APPROVAL NUMBER/ID) Ethical approval for this study was waived by – NAME OF ETHICS COMMITTEE OR INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD because ‘REASON FOR WAIVER’. Ethical approval was not obtained for the present study because of –‘REASON’. Not applicable

Authors retain copyright; published under CC BY-NC 4.0. Model summary

Author(s) shall retain the copyright of their work and grant the Journal/Publisher right for the first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows for the copying, distribution and transmission of the work, provided the correct attribution of the original creator is stated. Adaptation and …

Progress in Microbes and Molecular Biology is a Gold Open Access journal. Author(s) shall retain the copyright of their work, but grant to the Publisher a license to publish. Progress in Microbes and Molecular Biology works under the license of Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), which allows copying, distribution, and transmission of the published work with the acknowledgm…

After submission, editors assess the suitability of manuscripts, selecting those that align with the journal's scope and appeal to readers. Manuscripts that do not conform to the general criteria for publication will be returned to authors without detailed review. The chosen manuscripts are then sent to two or more reviewers for evaluation. Progress In Microbes and Molecular Biology adopts a doubl…

Plagiarism checked with Turnitin; plagiarism may lead to rejection or post-publication action. Model summary

To avoid plagiarism, the author shall provide all the information about the novelty and importance of the findings, including the similarity index report by iThenticate/Turnitin of 30% or less. Authors are strongly encouraged to use plagiarism detection software to check for possible plagiarism in their manuscripts before submitting them to PMMB.

Authors should upload materials and paper versions to a repository without embargo. Model summary

Relevant materials such as protocols, analytic methods, study material, and different versions of the papers (e.g., submitted, accepted, and published versions) should preferably be uploaded to an online institutional or other repository (e.g. AMBeRepo) of the authors' choice without any embargo from the publisher.

Name of trial registry: Trial registration number This randomized clinical trial was not registered because –‘REASON’ Not Applicable