About the Authors

Siraje Arif Mahmud

Contributed equally to this work with: Siraje Arif Mahmud, Mohammed Adnan Qureshi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States of America

Mohammed Adnan Qureshi

Contributed equally to this work with: Siraje Arif Mahmud, Mohammed Adnan Qureshi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States of America

Madhab Sapkota

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States of America

Mark W. Pellegrino

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

mark.pellegrino@uta.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.