About the Authors

Won Gi Yoo

Contributed equally to this work with: Won Gi Yoo, Dae-Won Kim, Jung-Won Ju

Affiliations Department of Medical Environmental Biology and Research Center for Biomolecules and Biosystems, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Division of Malaria and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Health, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Osong, Chungbuk, Republic of Korea

Dae-Won Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Won Gi Yoo, Dae-Won Kim, Jung-Won Ju

Affiliations Division of Malaria and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Health, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Osong, Chungbuk, Republic of Korea, Genome Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology and University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Jung-Won Ju

Contributed equally to this work with: Won Gi Yoo, Dae-Won Kim, Jung-Won Ju

Affiliation Division of Malaria and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Health, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Osong, Chungbuk, Republic of Korea

Pyo Yun Cho

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Zoonosis Research Center, Wonkwang University School of Medicine, Chonbuk, Republic of Korea

Tae Im Kim

Affiliation Department of Medical Environmental Biology and Research Center for Biomolecules and Biosystems, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Shin-Hyeong Cho

Affiliation Division of Malaria and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Health, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Osong, Chungbuk, Republic of Korea

Sang-Haeng Choi

Affiliation Genome Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology and University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Hong-Seog Park

hspark@kribb.re.kr (H-SP); tongsookim@inha.ac.kr (T-SK); hongsj@cau.ac.kr (S-JH)

Affiliation Genome Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology and University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Tong-Soo Kim

hspark@kribb.re.kr (H-SP); tongsookim@inha.ac.kr (T-SK); hongsj@cau.ac.kr (S-JH)

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Inha University School of Medicine, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Sung-Jong Hong

hspark@kribb.re.kr (H-SP); tongsookim@inha.ac.kr (T-SK); hongsj@cau.ac.kr (S-JH)

Affiliation Department of Medical Environmental Biology and Research Center for Biomolecules and Biosystems, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiment: JWJ, TSK, HSP, SJH. Performed the experiments: WGY, PYC, TIK, SH Choi, SH Cho. Material provided: JWJ, PYC, SH Cho, SJH. Analyzed the data: WGY, DWK, TIK, HSP, SH Choi. Wrote the paper: WGY, DWK, JWJ, PYC, TSK, HSP, SJH.