About the Authors

Venu Perla

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

Affiliation Gus R. Douglass Land-Grant Institute and Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Marjan Nadimi

Contributed equally to this work with: Marjan Nadimi, Rishi Reddy

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Gus R. Douglass Land-Grant Institute and Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Rishi Reddy

Contributed equally to this work with: Marjan Nadimi, Rishi Reddy

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Gus R. Douglass Land-Grant Institute and Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Gerald R. Hankins

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

ureddy@wvstateu.edu (UKR); ghankins@wvstateu.edu (GRH); padma@wvstateu.edu (PN)

‡ Co-corresponding authors

Affiliation Gus R. Douglass Land-Grant Institute and Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Padma Nimmakayala

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ureddy@wvstateu.edu (UKR); ghankins@wvstateu.edu (GRH); padma@wvstateu.edu (PN)

‡ Co-corresponding authors

Affiliation Gus R. Douglass Land-Grant Institute and Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Robert T. Harris

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Gus R. Douglass Land-Grant Institute and Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Jagan Valluri

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, One John Marshall Drive, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Cristian Sirbu

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Cancer Research, Charleston Area Medical Center, SE, Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America

Umesh K. Reddy

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

ureddy@wvstateu.edu (UKR); ghankins@wvstateu.edu (GRH); padma@wvstateu.edu (PN)

Affiliation Gus R. Douglass Land-Grant Institute and Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.