About the Authors

Mohammad Alimohammadi

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Alimohammadi, Mohamed Hassen Lahiani, Diamond McGehee

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Mohamed Hassen Lahiani

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Alimohammadi, Mohamed Hassen Lahiani, Diamond McGehee

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Diamond McGehee

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Alimohammadi, Mohamed Hassen Lahiani, Diamond McGehee

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Mariya Khodakovskaya

mvkhodakovsk@ualr.edu

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MK. Data curation: MK. Formal analysis: MK MA MHL DM. Funding acquisition: MK. Investigation: MK MA MHL DM. Methodology: MK. Project administration: MK. Resources: MK. Supervision: MK. Visualization: MK MA MHL DM. Writing – original draft: MK MA MHL DM.