About the Authors

Shahid Karim

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Shahid.Karim@usm.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, United States of America

Khemraj Budachetri

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, United States of America

Nabanita Mukherjee

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, United States of America

Jaclyn Williams

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, United States of America

Asma Kausar

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, United States of America, Department of Parasitology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Jawadul Hassan

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, United States of America, Department of Parasitology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Steven Adamson

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, United States of America

Scot E. Dowd

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Molecular Research LP, Shallowater, TX, United States of America

Dmitry Apanskevich

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Institute of Arthropodology and Parasitology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, United States of America

Abdullah Arijo

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Sindh Agricultural University, Tando Jam, Pakistan

Zia Uddin Sindhu

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Azam Kakar

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences, Lasbela, Balochistan, Pakistan

Raja Muhammad Dilpazir Khan

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Animal Husbandry, Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan

Shafiq Ullah

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Sohail Sajid

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Abid Ali

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan

Zafar Iqbal

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.