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microPublication Biology

McKenna Rice1, Richard Turner1, Aliana Ramos1, Lisseth Cervantes1, Alexandra Aguilar1, Dafne Baldera1, Toby Barrera1, Adriana Drescher1, Kinley Harris1, Angel Lozano1, Oliva McCutchan1, Joshua Otero1, Shelby Perrenoud1, Yasmeen Ramirez1, Gustave Allen1, and Dustin Edwards1§ORCID logo

1Biological Sciences, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX US

§Correspondence to: Dustin Edwards (dcedwards@tarleton.edu)

Abstract

Description

Acknowledgements

Conflicts of Interest

Funding

Author Contributions

  • McKenna Rice: Investigation, Writing - review & editing, Writing - original draft
  • Richard Turner: Investigation, Writing - original draft
  • Aliana Ramos: Investigation, Writing - original draft
  • Lisseth Cervantes: Investigation, Writing - original draft
  • Alexandra Aguilar: Investigation, Writing - original draft
  • Dafne Baldera: Investigation, Writing - original draft
  • Toby Barrera: Investigation, Writing - original draft
  • Adriana Drescher: Investigation, Writing - original draft
  • Kinley Harris: Investigation, Writing - original draft
  • Angel Lozano: Investigation, Writing - original draft
  • Oliva McCutchan: Investigation, Writing - original draft
  • Joshua Otero: Investigation, Writing - original draft
  • Shelby Perrenoud: Investigation, Writing - original draft
  • Yasmeen Ramirez: Investigation, Writing - original draft
  • Gustave Allen: Investigation, Supervision, Resources, Writing - original draft
  • Dustin Edwards: Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing

Reviewed By

Anonymous

History

  • Received: 9/21/2026
  • Revision Received: 10/31/2026
  • Accepted: 11/6/2026
  • Published Online: 11/10/2026

Copyright

© 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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The microPublication project is supported by

The National Institute of Health -- Grant #: 1U01LM012672-01

microPublication Biology:ISSN: 2578-9430