About the Authors

Adekunle Babajide Rowaiye

Contributed equally to this work with: Adekunle Babajide Rowaiye, Akwoba Joseph Ogugua, Gordon Ibeanu, Doofan Bur, Mercy Titilayo Asala, Osaretin Benjamin Ogbeide, Emmanuella Oshiorenimeh Abraham, Hamzah Bundu Usman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Biotechnology, National Biotechnology Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria

Akwoba Joseph Ogugua

Contributed equally to this work with: Adekunle Babajide Rowaiye, Akwoba Joseph Ogugua, Gordon Ibeanu, Doofan Bur, Mercy Titilayo Asala, Osaretin Benjamin Ogbeide, Emmanuella Oshiorenimeh Abraham, Hamzah Bundu Usman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ogugua.akwoba@unn.edu.ng

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

Gordon Ibeanu

Contributed equally to this work with: Adekunle Babajide Rowaiye, Akwoba Joseph Ogugua, Gordon Ibeanu, Doofan Bur, Mercy Titilayo Asala, Osaretin Benjamin Ogbeide, Emmanuella Oshiorenimeh Abraham, Hamzah Bundu Usman

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Science, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Doofan Bur

Contributed equally to this work with: Adekunle Babajide Rowaiye, Akwoba Joseph Ogugua, Gordon Ibeanu, Doofan Bur, Mercy Titilayo Asala, Osaretin Benjamin Ogbeide, Emmanuella Oshiorenimeh Abraham, Hamzah Bundu Usman

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Biotechnology, National Biotechnology Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria

Mercy Titilayo Asala

Contributed equally to this work with: Adekunle Babajide Rowaiye, Akwoba Joseph Ogugua, Gordon Ibeanu, Doofan Bur, Mercy Titilayo Asala, Osaretin Benjamin Ogbeide, Emmanuella Oshiorenimeh Abraham, Hamzah Bundu Usman

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Medical Biotechnology, National Biotechnology Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria

Osaretin Benjamin Ogbeide

Contributed equally to this work with: Adekunle Babajide Rowaiye, Akwoba Joseph Ogugua, Gordon Ibeanu, Doofan Bur, Mercy Titilayo Asala, Osaretin Benjamin Ogbeide, Emmanuella Oshiorenimeh Abraham, Hamzah Bundu Usman

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Benin, Benin, Nigeria

Emmanuella Oshiorenimeh Abraham

Contributed equally to this work with: Adekunle Babajide Rowaiye, Akwoba Joseph Ogugua, Gordon Ibeanu, Doofan Bur, Mercy Titilayo Asala, Osaretin Benjamin Ogbeide, Emmanuella Oshiorenimeh Abraham, Hamzah Bundu Usman

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Caritas University, Enugu, Nigeria

Hamzah Bundu Usman

Contributed equally to this work with: Adekunle Babajide Rowaiye, Akwoba Joseph Ogugua, Gordon Ibeanu, Doofan Bur, Mercy Titilayo Asala, Osaretin Benjamin Ogbeide, Emmanuella Oshiorenimeh Abraham, Hamzah Bundu Usman

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Science and Biotechnology, Federal University Gusau, Gusau, Nigeria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.