About the Authors

Tahmina Hossain Ahmed

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

T. Randolph Saunders

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Donald Mullins

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Mohammad Zillur Rahman

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Quantitative Science Core, Cancer Biology Division, Ponce Research Institute, Ponce Health Sciences University, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Jinsong Zhu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

zhujin@vt.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.