Harris McFerrin1§
, Dahlia Ahmed1, Justice Austin1, Classie Baker1, Skyler Brown1, Kaionah Cooper1, Kennedy Drake1, Liyah Galbert1, Jillian Harris1, Nora Herrera1, Gerald Jones1, Camerin Kimble1, Alicia Lewis1, Leianna Yancey1, Michael Khalil1, and Shaundessy Perry1
1Department of Biology, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
§Correspondence to: Harris McFerrin (hmcferri@xula.edu)
Abstract
Description
Acknowledgements
Conflicts of Interest
Funding
Author Contributions
- Harris McFerrin: Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing, Data curation, Formal analysis
- Dahlia Ahmed: Writing - original draft, Investigation, Data curation
- Justice Austin: Investigation
- Classie Baker: Investigation
- Skyler Brown: Investigation
- Kaionah Cooper: Investigation
- Kennedy Drake: Investigation
- Liyah Galbert: Investigation
- Jillian Harris: Investigation
- Nora Herrera: Investigation
- Gerald Jones: Investigation
- Camerin Kimble: Investigation
- Alicia Lewis: Investigation
- Leianna Yancey: Investigation
- Michael Khalil: Investigation
- Shaundessy Perry: Investigation
Reviewed By
Sarah Ball, Kurt Regner
History
- Received: 9/23/2025
- Revision Received: 7/14/2026
- Accepted: 8/7/2026
- Published Online: 8/10/2026
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© 2026 by the authors. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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