About the Authors

Leonardo A. Ceballos

Contributed equally to this work with: Leonardo A. Ceballos, Romina V. Piccinali, Paula L. Marcet, Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec, M. Victoria Cardinal

Affiliation Laboratory of Eco-Epidemiology, Department of Ecology, Genetics and Evolution, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Romina V. Piccinali

Contributed equally to this work with: Leonardo A. Ceballos, Romina V. Piccinali, Paula L. Marcet, Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec, M. Victoria Cardinal

Affiliation Laboratory of Eco-Epidemiology, Department of Ecology, Genetics and Evolution, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Paula L. Marcet

Contributed equally to this work with: Leonardo A. Ceballos, Romina V. Piccinali, Paula L. Marcet, Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec, M. Victoria Cardinal

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec

Contributed equally to this work with: Leonardo A. Ceballos, Romina V. Piccinali, Paula L. Marcet, Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec, M. Victoria Cardinal

Affiliations Department of Environmental Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

M. Victoria Cardinal

Contributed equally to this work with: Leonardo A. Ceballos, Romina V. Piccinali, Paula L. Marcet, Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec, M. Victoria Cardinal

Affiliation Laboratory of Eco-Epidemiology, Department of Ecology, Genetics and Evolution, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Judith Schachter-Broide

Affiliation Laboratory of Eco-Epidemiology, Department of Ecology, Genetics and Evolution, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jean-Pierre Dujardin

Affiliation Unité Mixte de Recherche, Institut de Recherches pour le Développment-Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Montpellier, France

Ellen M. Dotson

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Uriel Kitron

Affiliations Department of Environmental Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ricardo E. Gürtler

gurtler@ege.fcen.uba.ar

Affiliation Laboratory of Eco-Epidemiology, Department of Ecology, Genetics and Evolution, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: REG UK JPD EMD RVP LAC. Performed the experiments: LAC GMVP PLM MVC RVP JSB. Analyzed the data: LAC RVP PLM GMVP MVC JSB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LAC GMVP PLM RVP JSB EMD JPD UK REG. Wrote the paper: REG LAC GMVP PLM RVP JPD EMD UK.