About the Authors

Chaturong Putaporntip

Contributed equally to this work with: Chaturong Putaporntip, Jun Miao

Affiliation Molecular Biology of Malaria and Opportunistic Parasites Research Unit, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Jun Miao

Contributed equally to this work with: Chaturong Putaporntip, Jun Miao

Affiliation Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Napaporn Kuamsab

Affiliation Molecular Biology of Malaria and Opportunistic Parasites Research Unit, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Jetsumon Sattabongkot

Affiliation Vivax Malaria Research Center, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Jeeraphat Sirichaisinthop

Affiliation Vector Borne Disease Training Center, Pra Budhabat, Saraburi, Thailand

Somchai Jongwutiwes

jongwutiwes@gmail.com (SJ); luc2@psu.edu (LC)

Affiliation Molecular Biology of Malaria and Opportunistic Parasites Research Unit, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Liwang Cui

jongwutiwes@gmail.com (SJ); luc2@psu.edu (LC)

Affiliation Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJ LC. Performed the experiments: CP JM NK. Analyzed the data: CP JM SJ LC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JSa JSi. Wrote the paper: CP JM SJ LC.