About the Authors

Adnan Khan

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

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Ayaz Ahmad

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ahdayazb5@awkum.edu.pk (AA); myassin2.c@ksu.edu.sa (MTY)

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Farhad Badshah

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

Affiliations Livestock and Poultry Multi-Omics of MARA, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China, State Key Laboratory of Animal Biotech Breeding, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Muhammad Ali

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Muhammad Salman Khan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan

Warda Naz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Hazara University Mansehra, Dhodial, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Eliana Ibánez-Arancibia

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

Affiliations PhD Program in Sciences Mentioning Applied Molecular and Cell Biology, La Frontera University, Temuco, Chile, Laboratory of Engineering, Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry—LIBBA, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Science, La Frontera University, Temuco, Chile, Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Natural Resources, Catholic University of Temuco, Temuco, Chile

Patricio R. De los Ríos-Escalante

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Natural Resources, Catholic University of Temuco, Temuco, Chile, Nucleus of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Resources, Catholic University of Temuco, Temuco, Chile, Estudiante Magister en Estadística, Instituto de Estadística, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

Mohamed Taha Yassin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ahdayazb5@awkum.edu.pk (AA); myassin2.c@ksu.edu.sa (MTY)

Affiliation Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.