Fig. 1

Simplistic illustration of the network measures used in the study. Higher assortativity illustrating the tendency of a high degree node to be connected to another higher degree node; higher transitivity shows the greater number of connections within the module (forming triangles, higher modularity illustrates the reduced inter-module connection between the network, and higher betweenness centrality displays node connecting two networks with large number of within module connections highlighting the importance of this node in the network