About the Authors

Folashade B. Agusto

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

fbagusto@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Maria C. A. Leite

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Florida St Petersburg, St Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

Frank Owusu-Ansah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Social Science and Statistics Unit, Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana, New Tafo-Akim, Eastern Region, Ghana

Owusu Domfeh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pathology Division, Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana, New Tafo-Akim, Eastern Region, Ghana

Natali Hritonenko

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas, United States of America

Benito Chen-Charpentier

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.