About the Authors

Meher Hassan

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Muhammad Israr

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft

m.israr@uoh.edu.pk

Affiliations Department of Biology, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, College of Life Science, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, PR China

Simeen Mansoor

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Syeda Amna Hussain

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Chemical Sciences, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Faiza Basheer

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

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Women University Mardan, Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan

Azizullah Azizullah

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Shafiq Ur Rehman

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.