About the Authors

Lalita Gupta

Contributed equally to this work with: Lalita Gupta, Ju Young Noh

Current address: Biological Sciences Group, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS)-Pilani, Rajasthan, India

Affiliation Mosquito Immunity and Vector Competence Unit, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Ju Young Noh

Contributed equally to this work with: Lalita Gupta, Ju Young Noh

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea

Yong Hun Jo

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea

Seung Han Oh

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea

Sanjeev Kumar

Current address: Biological Sciences Group, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS)-Pilani, Rajasthan, India

Affiliation Mosquito Immunity and Vector Competence Unit, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Mi Young Noh

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea

Yong Seok Lee

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, College of Medicine and Frontier Inje Research for Science and Technology, Inje University, Busan, Korea

Sung-Jae Cha

Affiliation Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Malaria Research Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sook Jae Seo

Affiliation Division of Applied Life Science, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Korea

Iksoo Kim

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea

Yeon Soo Han

hanys@chonnam.ac.kr (YSH); cbarillas@niaid.nih.gov (CB-M)

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea

Carolina Barillas-Mury

hanys@chonnam.ac.kr (YSH); cbarillas@niaid.nih.gov (CB-M)

Affiliation Mosquito Immunity and Vector Competence Unit, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YSH CBM. Performed the experiments: LG JYN YHJ SHO SK MYN SJS IK. Analyzed the data: LG JYN YSH CBM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YSL SJC. Wrote the paper: YSH CBM. Edited figures and wrote and edited the final draft of the manuscript: CBM.