About the Authors

Saher Islam

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Umesh K. Reddy

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ureddy@wvstateu.edu (UKR); wasim.shehzad@uvas.edu.pk (WS)

Affiliation Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Purushothaman Natarajan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Venkata Lakshmi Abburi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Amna Arshad Bajwa

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Muhammad Imran

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Muhammad Yasir Zahoor

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Muhammad Abdullah

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Livestock Production, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pattoki, Pakistan

Aamir Mehmood Bukhari

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Semen Production Unit, Qadirabad, District Sahiwal, Pakistan, Livestock and Dairy Development Department, Government of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Sajid Iqbal

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Semen Production Unit, Qadirabad, District Sahiwal, Pakistan, Livestock and Dairy Development Department, Government of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Kamran Ashraf

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Asif Nadeem

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Habibur Rehman

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Imran Rashid

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Wasim Shehzad

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

ureddy@wvstateu.edu (UKR); wasim.shehzad@uvas.edu.pk (WS)

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.