About the Authors

Hossam Abdelhamed

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

abdelhamed@cvm.msstate.edu

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

Munshi Mustafiz Riman

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

Mark A. Arick II

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing and Biotechnology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

Ali Sobhy Dawood

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

Basant Gomaa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

Monzur Chowdhury

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

Larry A. Hanson

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

Attila Karsi

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.