About the Authors

Aygul Ishemgulova

Affiliations Life Science Research Centre, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic, Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic

Anzhelika Butenko

Affiliations Life Science Research Centre, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic, Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic

Lucie Kortišová

Affiliation Life Science Research Centre, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Carolina Boucinha

Affiliation Coleção de Protozoários, Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Protozoologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Anastasiia Grybchuk-Ieremenko

Affiliation Life Science Research Centre, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Karina A. Morelli

Affiliations Coleção de Protozoários, Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Protozoologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcântara Gomes, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Martina Tesařová

Affiliation Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic

Natalya Kraeva

Affiliation Life Science Research Centre, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Danyil Grybchuk

Affiliations Life Science Research Centre, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic, Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic

Tomáš Pánek

Affiliation Life Science Research Centre, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Pavel Flegontov

Affiliations Life Science Research Centre, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic, Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic, Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Julius Lukeš

Affiliations Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic, Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jan Votýpka

Affiliations Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Márcio Galvão Pavan

Affiliation Laboratório de Mosquitos Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fred R. Opperdoes

Affiliation de Duve Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Viktoria Spodareva

Affiliations Life Science Research Centre, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

Claudia M. d'Avila-Levy

Affiliation Coleção de Protozoários, Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Protozoologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Alexei Yu. Kostygov

vyacheslav.yurchenko@osu.cz (VY); aleksei.kostygov@osu.cz (AYK)

Affiliations Life Science Research Centre, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

Vyacheslav Yurchenko

vyacheslav.yurchenko@osu.cz (VY); aleksei.kostygov@osu.cz (AYK)

Affiliations Life Science Research Centre, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic, Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic, Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Institute of Environmental Technologies, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: VY AYK CMD. Data curation: AI AB PF. Formal analysis: AI LK CB AB AYK TP FRO. Funding acquisition: JL JV VY. Investigation: CB AGI KAM MT NK DG MGP VS. Methodology: AYK VY AB PF. Project administration: AYK VY. Resources: CMD VY. Software: PF AB. Supervision: CMD AYK VY. Validation: AYK. Visualization: AYK VY. Writing – original draft: AYK VY. Writing – review & editing: VY AYK.