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1 Department of Zoology, Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan

2 State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, Environmental Microbial Technology Center of Hubei Province, College of Life Science, Hubei University, Wuhan, China

3 Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan

4 Department of Zoology, University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan

5 Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Indonesia

6 National University of Medical Sciences, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

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