About the Authors

Louise Ford

louise.ford@liverpool.ac.uk

Current address: Filariasis Research Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Jun Zhang

Current address: Laboratory of Developmental Biology, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Jing Liu

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Sarwar Hashmi

Current address: Laboratory of Developmental Biology, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Juliet A. Fuhrman

Affiliation Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yelena Oksov

Affiliation Laboratory of Electron Microscopy, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Sara Lustigman

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LF SH SL. Performed the experiments: LF JZ JL SH JAF YO. Analyzed the data: LF SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL. Wrote the paper: LF SL.