About the Authors

Venice Du Pont

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Yi Jiang

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Richard K. Plemper

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

rplemper@gsu.edu

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.