About the Authors

Dorcas B. Bassey

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pure and Applied Zoology, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria

Hammed O. Mogaji

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

mogajihammed@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria

Gabriel A. Dedeke

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pure and Applied Zoology, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria

Bolanle I. Akeredolu-Ale

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Communication and General Studies, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria

Eniola M. Abe

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute of Parasitic Disease and Control, China Centre for Disease Control, People's Republic of China

Akinola S. Oluwole

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation COUNTDOWN project, Sightsavers, Nigeria Country Office, Nigeria

Abdulhakeem A. Adeniran

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

Affiliations Department of Pure and Applied Zoology, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, Laboratory of Molecular Biomedicine, Centre for Genomic, Biotechnology, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico

Olagunju A. Agboola

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

Affiliations Department of Pure and Applied Zoology, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, Department of Biological Sciences, Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria

Chiedu F. Mafiana

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Directorate of Research and Innovation, National Open University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria

Uwem F. Ekpo

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pure and Applied Zoology, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.