About the Authors

Emese Prandovszky

Affiliation Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Elizabeth Gaskell

Affiliation Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Heather Martin

Affiliation Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

J. P. Dubey

Affiliation Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, USDA, ARS, ANRI, BARC-East, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

Joanne P. Webster

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Glenn A. McConkey

G.A.McConkey@Leeds.ac.uk

Affiliation Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GAM EG EP. Performed the experiments: EG EP HM JPD. Analyzed the data: EP GAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GAM JPD. Wrote the paper: GAM EP JPW JPD.