About the Authors

Nida Saleem

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mushtaq.hussain@iub.edu.pk (MHL); nidasaleem1117@gmail.com (NS)

Affiliation Department of Zoology, The Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Mushtaq Hussain Lashari

Roles Supervision, Validation

mushtaq.hussain@iub.edu.pk (MHL); nidasaleem1117@gmail.com (NS)

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, The Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Hafiz Ishfaq Ahmad

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, The Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Shazia Tahreem

Roles Resources, Validation

Affiliation Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Mikhlid H. Almutairi

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration

Affiliation Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Shakeel Ahmed

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Formal analysis

Affiliations Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.