About the Authors

Lee R. Haines

Current address: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Jamie M. Thomas

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Angela M. Jackson

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Brett A. Eyford

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Morteza Razavi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Cristalle N. Watson

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Brent Gowen

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Robert E. W. Hancock

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Terry W. Pearson

parasite@uvic.ca

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LRH TWP. Performed the experiments: LRH JMT AMJ BAE MR CNW BG. Analyzed the data: LRH JMT AMJ BAE MR TWP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BG REWH TWP. Wrote the paper: LRH JMT REWH TWP.