About the Authors

Ebtesam Nafie

Contributed equally to this work with: Ebtesam Nafie, Jade Lolarga

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

Affiliations Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, CA, United States of America, Zoology Department, Faculty of Sciences, Benha University, Benha, Egypt

Jade Lolarga

Contributed equally to this work with: Ebtesam Nafie, Jade Lolarga

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, United States of America

Brandon Lam

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, United States of America

Jonathan Guo

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, United States of America

Elnaz Abdollahzadeh

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, United States of America

Sandy Rodriguez

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach, CA, United States of America

Carlotta Glackin

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

junjunliu@cpp.edu (JL); cglackin@coh.org (CG)

Affiliation Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, CA, United States of America

Junjun Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

junjunliu@cpp.edu (JL); cglackin@coh.org (CG)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.