About the Authors

Nelish Pradhan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Ajay N. Sharma

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Center for Molecular Dynamics–Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

Adarsh M. Sherchan

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Center for Molecular Dynamics–Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

Saurav Chhetri

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biology, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Paliza Shrestha

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

C. William Kilpatrick

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

wkilpatr@uvm.edu

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.