About the Authors

Nur E. Alam

Contributed equally to this work with: Nur E. Alam, Md. Shariful Islam

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh

Md. Shariful Islam

Contributed equally to this work with: Nur E. Alam, Md. Shariful Islam

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Hedayet Ullah

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh

Md. Tarek Molla

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh

Siratul Kubra Shifat

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh

Sumaiya Akter

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh

Salma Aktar

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh

Mst. Mahmuda Khatun

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh

Md. Rayhan Ali

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh

Tapon Chandra Sen

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh

Kamal Chowdhury

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States of America

Rehana Pervin

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Tangail Medical College, Tangail, Bangladesh

A. K. M. Mohiuddin

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

akmmohiu@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.