About the Authors

Boshra Ahmed Halo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

Yaqeen A. S. Aljabri

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

Mahmoud W. Yaish

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

myaish@squ.edu.om

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.