About the Authors

Ondřej Šmíd

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Anna Matušková

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

Simon R. Harris

Affiliation Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Tomáš Kučera

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

Marián Novotný

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Lenka Horváthová

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Ivan Hrdý

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Eva Kutějová

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Robert P. Hirt

Affiliation Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

T. Martin Embley

Affiliation Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Jiří Janata

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

Jan Tachezy

tachezy@natur.cuni.cz

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TME JJ JT. Performed the experiments: OS AM TK IH EK. Analyzed the data: OS SRH MN LH RPH JT. Wrote the paper: OS TME JT.