About the Authors

Emmanuela U. Anele

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

deciella@yahoo.com (EUA); evansb@mcmaster.ca (BJE)

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Ishaya Haruna Nock

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Ibrahim M. K. Gadzama

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Biology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Grace S. N. Kia

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Tharindu Premachandra

Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Canada

Joseph A. Jackson

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Science, Engineering and Environment, Salford University, United Kingdom

Richard C. Tinsley

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Bristol University, United Kingdom

Ben J. Evans

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

deciella@yahoo.com (EUA); evansb@mcmaster.ca (BJE)

Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.