About the Authors

Deanne S. Roopnarine

Contributed equally to this work with: Deanne S. Roopnarine, Peter D. Roopnarine, Laurie C. Anderson, Ji Hae Hwang, Swati Patel

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

roopnari@nova.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, United States of America

Peter D. Roopnarine

Contributed equally to this work with: Deanne S. Roopnarine, Peter D. Roopnarine, Laurie C. Anderson, Ji Hae Hwang, Swati Patel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Laurie C. Anderson

Contributed equally to this work with: Deanne S. Roopnarine, Peter D. Roopnarine, Laurie C. Anderson, Ji Hae Hwang, Swati Patel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Museum of Geology, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota, United States of America

Ji Hae Hwang

Contributed equally to this work with: Deanne S. Roopnarine, Peter D. Roopnarine, Laurie C. Anderson, Ji Hae Hwang, Swati Patel

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Kent State University College of Podiatric Medicine, Independence, Ohio, United States of America

Swati Patel

Contributed equally to this work with: Deanne S. Roopnarine, Peter D. Roopnarine, Laurie C. Anderson, Ji Hae Hwang, Swati Patel

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.