About the Authors

Pamela El Khoury

Contributed equally to this work with: Pamela El Khoury, Andy Awad

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

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

Andy Awad

Contributed equally to this work with: Pamela El Khoury, Andy Awad

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

Brigitte Wex

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

Roy A. Khalaf

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

roy.khalaf@lau.edu.lb

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.