About the Authors

Carlos Lopez-Ortiz

Contributed equally to this work with: Carlos Lopez-Ortiz, Sudip Kumar Dutta

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Gus R. Douglass Institute, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Sudip Kumar Dutta

Contributed equally to this work with: Carlos Lopez-Ortiz, Sudip Kumar Dutta

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Biology, Gus R. Douglass Institute, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America, ICAR RC NEH Region, Mizoram Centre, Kolasib, Mizoram, India

Purushothaman Natarajan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Biology, Gus R. Douglass Institute, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America, Department of Genetic Engineering, School of Bioengineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India

Yadira Peña-Garcia

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Gus R. Douglass Institute, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Venkata Abburi

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biology, Gus R. Douglass Institute, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Thangasamy Saminathan

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biology, Gus R. Douglass Institute, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Padma Nimmakayala

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Gus R. Douglass Institute, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Umesh K. Reddy

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ureddy@wvstateu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Gus R. Douglass Institute, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.