About the Authors

Afia Iqbal

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakista

Shagufta Naz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

shagufta6@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakista

Haiba Kaul

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Genetics Discipline, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Saima Sharif

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakista

Aysha Khushbakht

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakista

Muhammad Asif Naeem

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Vision Impairment Lab of Genetic Diseases Group, Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology, Lahore, Pakistan

Mehwish Iqtedar

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan

Afshan Kaleem

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan

Sabika Firasat

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Farkhanda Manzoor

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakista

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.