About the Authors

Sheetalpreet K. Maan

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

Affiliations Department of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America, CAI-SMART Center, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America, South Dakota Mines, Rapid City, South Dakota, United States of America, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Xuan Y. Butzin

Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America, CAI-SMART Center, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America, South Dakota Mines, Rapid City, South Dakota, United States of America, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Steven X. Ge

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations CAI-SMART Center, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America

Nicholas C. Butzin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Nicholas.Butzin@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America, CAI-SMART Center, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.