About the Authors

Chamini Kanatiwela-de Silva

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

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Environment Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, Colombo03, Sri Lanka

Malini Damayanthi

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology & Science Park, Mahenwatte, Pitipana, Homagama, Sri Lanka

Nalin de Silva

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliations Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology & Science Park, Mahenwatte, Pitipana, Homagama, Sri Lanka, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, Colombo 03, Sri Lanka

Rohana Wijesekera

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Coconut Research Institute, Lunuwila, Sri Lanka

Matthew Dickinson

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, United Kingdom

Devaka Weerakoon

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Environment Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, Colombo03, Sri Lanka

Preethi Udagama

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

preethi@zoology.cmb.ac.lk

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Environment Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, Colombo03, Sri Lanka

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.