About the Authors

Mohamed Lotfy

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

m.lotfy@uaeu.ac.ae (ML); tksiksi@uaeu.ac.ae (TK)

Affiliation Biology Department, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Abdallah Khalaf

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Biology Department, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Faisal AlBarghouthy

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Biology Department, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Abdulla Alhashmi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Biology Department, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Hesham Adam

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Biology Department, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Abdulla Almesmari

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Biology Department, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Biduth Kundu

Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Biology Department, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Taoufik Ksiksi

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

m.lotfy@uaeu.ac.ae (ML); tksiksi@uaeu.ac.ae (TK)

Affiliation Biology Department, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.