About the Authors

Vanessa Corby-Harris

Contributed equally to this work with: Vanessa Corby-Harris, Anna Drexler

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Anna Drexler

Contributed equally to this work with: Vanessa Corby-Harris, Anna Drexler

Affiliation Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California – Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Laurel Watkins de Jong

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Yevgeniya Antonova

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Nazzy Pakpour

Affiliation Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California – Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Rolf Ziegler

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Frank Ramberg

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Edwin E. Lewis

Affiliations Department of Entomology, University of California – Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Nematology, University of California – Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Jessica M. Brown

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Shirley Luckhart

Affiliation Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California – Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Michael A. Riehle

mriehle@ag.arizona.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL MAR. Performed the experiments: VCH AD LWdJ YA RZ FR JMB. Analyzed the data: VCH AD NP EEL. Wrote the paper: VCH AD NP SL MAR.