About the Authors

Christian Tenezogang Takoukam

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Tenezogang Takoukam, Dieudonné Massoma Lembè

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

These authors contributed equally to this work and are Joint Senior Authors

Affiliation Department of Biology and Physiology of Animal organisms, Faculty of Science, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon

Marie Claire Tchamadeu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

marieclaire_tchamadeu@yahoo.fr

These authors contributed equally to this work and are Joint Senior Authors

Affiliation Department of Biology and Physiology of Animal organisms, Faculty of Science, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon

Sylvin Benjamin Ateba

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

‡ SBA, WYN, CBZ and PEO also contributed equally to this work. QSN, A-KPF and AH also contributed equally to this work. MW-N and ABN also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology and Physiology of Animal organisms, Faculty of Science, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon

William Yousseu Nana

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

‡ SBA, WYN, CBZ and PEO also contributed equally to this work. QSN, A-KPF and AH also contributed equally to this work. MW-N and ABN also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology and Physiology of Animal organisms, Faculty of Science, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon

Quelie Selakong Nzekuie

Roles Investigation

‡ SBA, WYN, CBZ and PEO also contributed equally to this work. QSN, A-KPF and AH also contributed equally to this work. MW-N and ABN also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology and Physiology of Animal organisms, Faculty of Science, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon

Armel-Kevin Pechi Fotso

Roles Investigation

‡ SBA, WYN, CBZ and PEO also contributed equally to this work. QSN, A-KPF and AH also contributed equally to this work. MW-N and ABN also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology and Physiology of Animal organisms, Faculty of Science, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon

Ahmadou Hassimatou

Roles Investigation

‡ SBA, WYN, CBZ and PEO also contributed equally to this work. QSN, A-KPF and AH also contributed equally to this work. MW-N and ABN also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology and Physiology of Animal organisms, Faculty of Science, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon

Calvin Bogning Zangue

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

‡ SBA, WYN, CBZ and PEO also contributed equally to this work. QSN, A-KPF and AH also contributed equally to this work. MW-N and ABN also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology and Physiology of Animal organisms, Faculty of Science, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon

Pascal Emmanuel Owona

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

‡ SBA, WYN, CBZ and PEO also contributed equally to this work. QSN, A-KPF and AH also contributed equally to this work. MW-N and ABN also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé 1, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Modeste Wankeu-Nya

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ SBA, WYN, CBZ and PEO also contributed equally to this work. QSN, A-KPF and AH also contributed equally to this work. MW-N and ABN also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology and Physiology of Animal organisms, Faculty of Science, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon

Alain Bertrand Dongmo

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ SBA, WYN, CBZ and PEO also contributed equally to this work. QSN, A-KPF and AH also contributed equally to this work. MW-N and ABN also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology and Physiology of Animal organisms, Faculty of Science, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon

Dieudonné Massoma Lembè

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Tenezogang Takoukam, Dieudonné Massoma Lembè

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

These authors contributed equally to this work and are Joint Senior Authors

Affiliation Department of Biology and Physiology of Animal organisms, Faculty of Science, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.