About the Authors

Carina S. S. Gomes-Santos

Contributed equally to this work with: Carina S. S. Gomes-Santos, Joanna Braks

Affiliations Malaria Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisboa, Portugal, PhD Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Joanna Braks

Contributed equally to this work with: Carina S. S. Gomes-Santos, Joanna Braks

Affiliation Leiden Malaria Research Group, Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

Miguel Prudêncio

Affiliation Malaria Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisboa, Portugal

Céline Carret

Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal

Ana Rita Gomes

Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal

Arnab Pain

Affiliations Pathogen Genetics Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), Chemical Life Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Theresa Feltwell

Affiliation Pathogen Genetics Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Shahid Khan

Affiliation Leiden Malaria Research Group, Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

Andrew Waters

gmair@fm.ul.pt (GRM); andy.waters@glasgow.ac.uk (AW); mmota@fm.ul.pt (MM)

Affiliations Leiden Malaria Research Group, Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands, Division of Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biomedical Life Sciences and Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland

Chris Janse

Affiliation Leiden Malaria Research Group, Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

Gunnar R. Mair

gmair@fm.ul.pt (GRM); andy.waters@glasgow.ac.uk (AW); mmota@fm.ul.pt (MM)

Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal

Maria M. Mota

gmair@fm.ul.pt (GRM); andy.waters@glasgow.ac.uk (AW); mmota@fm.ul.pt (MM)

Affiliation Malaria Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisboa, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CSSGS JB MP CC SK AW CJ GRM MM. Performed the experiments: CSSGS JB MP CC ARG TF GRM. Analyzed the data: CSSGS JB MP CC ARG CJ GRM MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP AW. Wrote the paper: CSSGS JB MP CC SK AW CJ GRM MM.