About the Authors

Parker Elijah Joshua

Contributed equally to this work with: Parker Elijah Joshua, Cynthia Ogochukwu Nwauzor, Timothy Prince Chidike Ezeorba

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Faculty of Biological Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

Cynthia Ogochukwu Nwauzor

Contributed equally to this work with: Parker Elijah Joshua, Cynthia Ogochukwu Nwauzor, Timothy Prince Chidike Ezeorba

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Biological Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

Damian Chukwu Odimegwu

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology & Biotechnology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

Uzochukwu Gospel Ukachukwu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Faculty of Biological Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

Rita Onyekachukwu Asomadu

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Faculty of Biological Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

Timothy Prince Chidike Ezeorba

Contributed equally to this work with: Parker Elijah Joshua, Cynthia Ogochukwu Nwauzor, Timothy Prince Chidike Ezeorba

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

timothy.ezeorba@unn.edu.ng

Affiliation Faculty of Biological Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist