About the Authors

Yonas I. Tekle

Contributed equally to this work with: Yonas I. Tekle, Fang Wang

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

ytekle@spelman.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Fang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yonas I. Tekle, Fang Wang

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

Affiliation Department of Biology, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Alireza Heidari

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

Affiliation Department of Biology, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Alanna Johnson Stewart

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.