About the Authors

Nicolas Corradi

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicolas Corradi, Donna E. Akiyoshi

Affiliation Department of Botany, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Donna E. Akiyoshi

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicolas Corradi, Donna E. Akiyoshi

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hilary G. Morrison

Affiliation Marine Biological Laboratory, Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xiaochuan Feng

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States of America

Louis M. Weiss

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Saul Tzipori

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States of America

Patrick J. Keeling

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: pkeeling@interchange.ubc.ca

Affiliation Department of Botany, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PK NC. Analyzed the data: NC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LW ST HM DA XF. Wrote the paper: PK NC.