About the Authors

Austin Vandegriffe

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

austin.g.vandegriffe@gmail.com (AV); thimgan@mst.edu (MST)

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri United States of America

V.A. Samaranayake

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

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri United States of America

Matthew S. Thimgan

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

austin.g.vandegriffe@gmail.com (AV); thimgan@mst.edu (MST)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.